Hurricane Mitch - Oct 1998 Updates

Human Rights Council Fifty-sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right...

Highlights The government of El Salvador has concluded its evaluation of the impacts of Tropical Storm Amanda and Tropical Depression Cristobal. According to the results there is severe damage in...

INTRODUCCIÓN Centroamérica es una región geográfica con marcados contrastes entre sus dos vertientes, caribeña y pacífica, y se caracteriza por su alta diversidad biológica y cultural. En un...

Por Richard Waddington CARTAGENA, 21 de junio de 2018 – Durante una conferencia internacional, se explicó que el huracán Mitch, que en 1998 dejó tras su paso una estela de destrucción por toda...

Javier E. Báez, Alan Fuchs, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán 1. Executive Summary The region has made impressive strides in the struggle against poverty and income inequality The Latin America and Caribbean...

No hay estructura de paso desde los estragos del huracán Mitch en 1998. Pobladores de varias comunidades y caseríos del cantón Apancoyo Arriba, del municipio de Cuisnahuat, en Sonsonate, pidieron...

Immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua who have Temporary Protected Status in the United States will learn by Monday whether that status is to be extended. If the Department of Homeland Security does...

El huracán Mitch marcó la huella para que Nicaragua empezara a invertir en la gestión de riesgo y con ello estar mejor preparado para enfrentar desastres Era un temporal de los que en este nuevo...

Focus on tropical cyclones on American continent “Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic...

A South-South Exchange on Territorial and Development Planning Challenge Honduras is among the countries most affected by climate change and disasters triggered by natural events. Its high...

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:00 GMT Author: Alisa Tang After disasters strike, communities sometimes have no choice but to build a new life in a new place. Individual...

Guatemala, 28 de Abril 2014 Fuente: Prensa Libre Link Redhum: http://www.redhum.org/noticia_detail/afectados-por-mitch-y-agatha-exigen-servicios-43028 Damnificados por el huracán Mitch y la tormenta...

En el documento se resalta que ese organismo de cooperación apoyó a Honduras con 121 millones 715 mil euros, en el desarrollo de 22 proyectos en materia de infraestructura, agua y saneamiento, salud...

By David Tereshchuk* November 5, 2012—As the Northeast United States recovers from Hurricane Sandy, and massive support to rebuild devastated lives is mobilized from near and far, it’s clear that...

By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 3 2012 (IPS) - In a country as vulnerable to natural disasters as Guatemala, a “state of public calamity” is frequently declared – to the joy of contractors,...

Posted by Alan Whelan Below I've picked 11 of our most striking photos from a busy 2011, representing Trócaire's work responding to emergencies in Haiti, East Africa and Pakistan and our long term...

Disasters are an all-too-common feature of life in the Americas. Recent catastrophic events, such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, the earthquakes in Peru in 2007 and in Haiti and Chile...

These briefs have been elaborated in the framework of the collaboration of FAO and UN-HABITAT, as part of the Natural Disasters Initiatives under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee for Humanitarian...