Guatemala: Landslide - Sep 2002 Updates

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are...

Nicaragua and Guatemala, battling the onslaught of hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters for decades, are partnering with UNDP to respond to such crises. The aim is to pick up where...

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Highlights Global cereal output in 2002 is estimated at 1 838 million tonnes, slightly up from the forecast in December, but still 3.3 percent down from the previous year. However, given the expected...

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IP/03/34 Brussels, 13 January 2003 - The European Commission has recently taken a series of humanitarian decisions worth almost €17 million covering disaster prevention and relief activities in...

Introduction Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the Americas region with only Haiti ranking lower on the Human Development Index (HDI). The country is made up of 25 linguistic groups...

Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the Americas region with only Haiti ranking lower on the Human Development Index (HDI). The country is made up of 25 linguistic groups including 22 Mayan...

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The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are...

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GENEVA, 10 October 2002 - The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has been awarded a United Nations Sasakawa Certificate of Merit for its achievements in mobilizing university graduates to...

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Rescue efforts have now ended following the devastating landslide that hit the community of El Porvenir, 95 miles west of Guatemala City, on 13 September. Thirty-one people, including four families,...

Guatemala City (dpa) - At least 35 people were killed in Guatemala when a bus travelling on the Inter-American highway near the border with Mexico plunged into a ravine a day earlier, according to...

San José, Costa Rica - The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said today that 8.6 million people in Central America live in the rural areas of a "drought corridor" where they have been exposed...

On September 12, heavy rainfall in the community of San Lucas Toliman in Guatemala caused a landslide that killed 28 people, half of whom were children. Many others were wounded or are still missing...

WFP Press Briefing - Geneva Following the massive landslide which killed 30 people last Thursday (12 Sept) in Guatemala, WFP is carrying out a rapid needs assessment with UNICEF and government...

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FINAL DRAFT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Recurrent shocks have been the norm in Central America over the past decades and will be the norm in the foreseeable future. Families expect shocks in particular drought...