Reports

Executive Summary Viet Nam is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. The government's impressive achievements in pulling millions of people out of poverty are seriously jeopardised by the likely increase in extreme weather events…

Rising sea-levels, more intense typhoons, higher temperatures and increased flooding and drought threaten to drag millions of Vietnamese people back into poverty, an Oxfam report reveals today. In the report, Viet Nam: Climate Change, Adaptation and Poor People, Oxfam shows how Viet…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, November 18 (UNHCR) - Afghan returnees need more support to settle back home, or could be uprooted again, warned UN refugee agency chief António Guterres as he started a five-day visit to Afghanistan this week. The High Commissioner…

Much of the loss of life in the great cyclone Nargis in Myanmar could have been avoided. Humanitarian organizations urge governments to take action before the disasters hit. Every year natural disasters are becoming more frequent and the humanitarian consequences…

JAKARTA, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - The 11 November launch in Jakarta of the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS) was welcome news throughout the archipelago, but perhaps most of all in Aceh. The province hardest hit by the December 2004…

SG/SM/11913 Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message to the launch of the Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, as delivered in Jakarta today, 11 November, by Sálvano Briceño, Director of the Secretariat of the International Strategy for…

Tomorrow (11 November), four years after the devastating tsunami hit the Indian Ocean, the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) will be launched. The early warning system will secure the Indonesian coast in the future with seismological stations, tide gauges…

HANOI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A tropical storm developing west of the Philippines could bring rain to disrupt Vietnam's coffee harvesting by early next week if it lands on the central coast, a storm-tracking website showed on Friday. Tropical storm…

By Anthony Mwangi, IFRC, Geneva For years now, cyclones have pummelled the western seafront of Myanmar. Disaster preparedness and response measures focused on that part of Myanmar, guided by a historic sequence of events. That changed when a cyclone shifted…

By Liz O'Neill In the days following a deadly earthquake in a remote region of Pakistan, women and children are facing severe health hazards, according to assessments by Catholic Relief Services' emergency response teams on the ground. Emergency relief workers…