Reports

KARACHI, 14 March 2011 (IRIN) - It is tough enough living with a disability in the Pakistani city of Karachi, but being targeted by traffickers has added a new challenge: Hundreds of people with disabilities are being trafficked to…

GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's radiation leak appeared to be "quite low" but the WHO network of medical experts was ready to assist if…

WFP has just launched a completely revamped specialist website - the Humanitarian Early Warning Service - providing up-to-the-minute information on natural hazards around the world. As world attention focused on Japan's earthquake on Friday, hundreds of users downloaded maps and…

One of the salient policy recommendations for conflict and genocide prevention is the use of early warning models. This NTS Insight investigates and applies two well-known models used for conflict and genocide risk assessments to test the impact of…

Geneva, Switzerland - A new report from the United Nations confirms what governments already hear but are slow to believe: that disciplined public sector involvement in "disaster risk reduction" can significantly reduce setbacks brought by hundreds of droughts, earthquakes, wildfires,…

I. Context Floods are a major hazard in Nepal and they contribute to the endemic poverty of the country. Unfortunately, floods are likely to increase as climate change proceeds. The Siwalik range in the southern part ofNepalsees an…

The Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) was formed in May 2009 to support the Government of Nepal in developing a long term Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan building on the National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (NSDRM). The founding…

KATHMANDU, 25 February 2011 (IRIN) - Protracted political wrangling in Nepal is preventing a key piece of disaster preparedness legislation from reaching parliament. Endorsed by the cabinet in October 2009, the National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (NSDRM) [ http://www.undp.org.np/pdf/NSDRMFinalDraft.pdf ]…

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Margareta Wahlström, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, told journalists in Islamabad on Tuesday that Pakistan faces massive future losses in lives and livelihoods by not investing now in mechanisms that mitigate…

By SAW YAN NAING Friday, February 11, 2011 It has been three months since an election-day border clash broke out in Myawaddy between government troops and renegade Brigade 5 of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) that sent 20,000 refugees…