Reports

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Viet Nam's low-lying and flood-prone Mekong Delta region will get support from Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help cope with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change. Technical assistance grants totaling $1.3 million from the…

SC/9840 Security Council 6257th Meeting (AM) Presidential Statement Follows Debate, Which Includes 11 Organizations; Council Also Observes Minute of Silence on Behalf of Haiti Earthquake Victims Following a two-day retreat of officials from 11 regional organizations with the Secretary-General and…

Military operations and bomb attacks continued to kill and injure large numbers of civilians in Afghanistan. The ICRC continued to help health facilities deal with the consequences, providing medicines and helping the wounded rebuild their lives. Efforts to help detainees…

By Alistair Scrutton NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indian Kashmir risks a return to militancy and violent protests if New Delhi fails to push a stalled peace process in the disputed region, one of the state's most influential separatist…

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Pakistan's economy is showing some signs of recovery but delays by donors in handing over promised aid threaten its ability to meet targets under its International Monetary Fund loan program, Pakistani finance officials said…

By Damakant Jayshi KATHMANDU, Jan 5 (IPS) - Nepal's walk to peace from a decade-long, Maoist-led bloody insurgency that ended four years ago could take longer than expected. That is, if the peace process, negotiated between the seven opposition parties and…

Disaster Risk Reduction in Merlin: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a key focus for Merlin. Merlin's approach to DRR aims to mitigate the impact of disasters on health and promote the critical role of an effective health system in risk…

JAKARTA, 31 December 2009 (IRIN) - Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Indonesia's early warning system remains a work in progress, officials and experts say. Indonesia began setting up an early warning system in 2005, a year after a…

Foreword At its 5th meeting in copenhagen in november 2008, the GFDrr consultative Group asked the secretariat to focus on a select group of priority countries to achieve increased impact. in GFDrr’s Track ii, Mainstreaming Disaster risk…

By Katherine Baldwin LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Five years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the region has its own early warning system but experts say the new technology will not save lives unless local communities are more involved…