Bangladesh: Cyclone - Apr 1991 Updates

This report was co-authored by Ms Olga Bogdan, Mr McPherlain, C. Chungu and Ms Seulgi Yoon, in the framework of a joint partnership between the Graduate Institute of International and Development...

Summary Persons with disabilities often experience discrimination and exclusion, despite the adoption of an increasingly rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance. The past three decades have...

The Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes describes the distribution and impacts of disasters and highlights measures to increase resilience.

Overview The Challenge: Linking Gender Issues to Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management Programs The countries of East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) are among the most vulnerable in the world to...

DHAKA, 20 July 2011 (IRIN) - In a nation considered the most vulnerable to natural disasters in the world, women must be enabled to take on a bigger role in disaster preparedness and response, experts say. “To be frank, it’s a constant challenge to achieve genuine female participation in the...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In Asia, 70 per cent of the poor live in rural areas. Although every region of Asia has made considerable progress in reduction of rural poverty in the last decade, the problem...

Why School Safety? School safety was given a major focus by the United Nations International Strategy on Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) when the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign was devoted...

Geneva - Women and men are affected differently by disaster due to the economic, social and cultural roles they play in society. 90 per cent of the people killed in the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh...

COX'S BAZAR, 20 October 2008 (IRIN) - In 1991 a cyclone killed 22,000 people on Kutubdia Island in the Bay of Bengal, off the coastal town of Cox's Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh. Saber Ahmed, 45,...

DHAKA , 8 October 2008 (IRIN) - Natural disasters are synonymous with Bangladesh, with floods, cyclones, tornados, epidemics and river bank erosion often occurring simultaneously - and with...

By Hanna Schmuck, in Cox's Bazar "The project has changed a lot for us women," explains 50 year-old Aria Begum from the village of Harun Matbar Para. "Before, we only thought about saving ourselves...

Message from the Director "Prompt United States assistance to alleviate human suffering caused by natunl and manmade disasters is an important expression of the humanitarian concern and tradition of...

UNDRO 91/0731 BANGLADESH - CYCLONE UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 30 APRIL 1991 1. SEVERE STORM WITH WINDS UP TO OVER 200 KPH HIT BANGLADESHI COASTLINE IN CHITTAGONG AREA ON TUESDAY 30 APRIL. MEDIA...