CARE report "Suffering in Silence" highlights humanitarian crises around the world that rarely made the news: North Korea, Eritrea and Burundi were the least covered by media.
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CARE report "Suffering in Silence" highlights humanitarian crises around the world that rarely made the news: North Korea, Eritrea and Burundi were the least covered by media.
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Of the 9.1 million new internal displacements, 4.6 million were caused by conflict, a figure which is already two-thirds of last year’s total. Disaster displacement continues at an unabated pace too.
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Severe rains have triggered landslides in the Chittagong Hills, reportedly killing more than 40 people and leaving dozens missing. This latest disaster comes in the wake of Cyclone Mora.
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Cyclone Mora in Myanmar and Bangladesh, and torrential monsoon rains across Sri Lanka have left children homeless and in need of protection, nutrition and health services.
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An estimated 503,560 people in 15 of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts have been affected by floods and landslides, with 82,998 people displaced. A total of 156 deaths has been confirmed.
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By the close of the second quarter of 2014, donors had contributed $296.1 million to CERF for 2014, bringing total contributions to over 68 per cent of total pledges for the year.
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During the first half of the year, 2,700 people died as a result of natural disasters, compared to 9,100 deaths in the first six months of 2013. There were around 490 loss-relevant natural disasters.
Preliminary UN estimates show that it will cost about $210 million to cover immediate priority needs for the next six months.
Over the past week, UNDP has delivered 500 tonnes of concentrate animal feed, fertiliser and seeds to farmers in 15 flood-affected municipalities.
Recent severe flooding in Bosnia has dislodged landmines planted during the Balkans conflict and carried away warning signs indicating the location of mine-polluted areas.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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In the coming months there will be long-term needs for shelter items for those who have been displaced, medicine and first-aid items and supplies to treat water-borne illness.
Landmines and mine awareness signs have either moved or been washed away by landslides and flooding. There is a high risk that current mine maps are inaccurate.
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Damages are expected to be high, with the agricultural sector, on which the economies of the Balkan countries rely, expected to bear the brunt of the record flooding.
More than 4,000 have been evacuated so far as a result of what government sources have called the biggest Serbian disaster in recent history.
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DISASTER EVENTS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN 2011 Asia and the Pacific continues to live up to its reputation as the world’s most natural-disaster-prone region. The International Disaster Database, EM-DAT, reports 89 natural-disaster events in the region in 2011. In terms of the number of events,...
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Rice prices uncertain after Southeast Asian floods International rice prices are uncertain in the wake of flooding that has devastated several nations in Southeast Asia, according to FAO. Despite the loss of a few million tonnes of rice in Thailand because of the floods, FAO has raised its forecast...