Reports

Children in flood-hit areas of Pakistan are at high risk of catching pneumonia as winter temperatures plummet leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of catching the deadly disease. Freezing conditions are expected to fuel the spread of pneumonia in flood-affected…

Climate change has the potential to exacerbate existing incompliance with economic, social and cultural rights because many countries that are most vulnerable to climate change are ones with weak human rights mechanisms. Although poor countries are disproportionately feeling the adverse impacts…

Almost 200 nations meet in Mexico this week to try to agree steps toward a climate treaty. WFP will be among those watching carefully because climate is intimately connected to hunger and erratic weather threatens to make the poor…

Children from the poorest families can be up to ten times more likely to bear the brunt of environmental disasters linked to climate change than those from better off families, according to our new research. Monday 29 November 2010 Banto in…

Johannesburg, 25 November 2010 (IRIN) - In another four decades, higher average global temperatures will lead to water stress, causing food production and access to fall, which will drive an additional 24 million children into hunger, says a study…

DHAKA, 18 November 2010 (IRIN) - Working in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladeshi aid groups have learned that well-intentioned disaster relief programmes without community participation do little to protect those communities in the long run. "Communities…

MUANG BANG, 16 November 2010 (IRIN) - Heavy rain flooded most of Thailand this past month, affected nine million people in 51 of the country's 75 provinces, and underscored the country's need for better community disaster preparedness, government officials…

15 Nov 2010 00:01:16 GMT Source: Reuters * Somalia is country most at risk from terrorism-ranking * Greece is European country most in danger-consultancy By William Maclean, Security Correspondent LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Somalia has replaced Iraq as the state most…

Updated November 11, 2010 09:25:42 The deaths of more than a dozen children following an outbreak of cholera on one of Papua New Guinea's Torres Strait Islands has raised concerns that the disease might spread to other islands, as well…

Dhaka - On the first day of her official visit to Bangladesh, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark traveled to the remote island of Char Kukri-Mukri on the southeast coast. This island, with a population of around 20,000, is on the…