Reports

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United States is keen to help set up an international tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean where giant waves crushed coastlines from Malaysia to Africa on Dec.…

Lieberman wants $30 million investment in global oceanic system Washington - Senator Joseph Lieberman says he will urge Congress to back deployment of a system that will extend warning devices for tsunamis into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.  Such a system…

New York, 31 December 2004: UNDP will integrate risk reduction into recovery and reconstruction programmes in the Asian tsunami aftermath. The aim is to avoid as early as possible rebuilding pre-existing risks and vulnerabilities in the devastated areas. The Government…

YANGON, Myanmar, 30 December 2004 - UNICEF and the government of Myanmar are working in close coordination to assess the impact on the country of last Sunday's tsunami ocean surge. Myanmar representative Carroll Long said UNICEF staff and government officials…

UN/ISDR 2004/17 Tsunami early warning systems could have saved thousands of lives following the devastating tsunamis that struck Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and neighbouring countries and islands on 26 December, according to UN sources. Latest reports put the death toll…

On day three of the massive United Nations relief effort after the devastating Asian tsunami, senior officials today issued an immediate call for $130 million ahead of a much vaster appeal next week, stressed that coordination was now vital to save…

Washington (dpa) - Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga raised the need for a tsunami early-warning system for the Indian Ocean basin during a telephone call Wednesday with U.S. President George W. Bush. ''I think that part of the long-term strategy in…

The following statement was issued today by Walter Kälin, Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons: "The Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons joins with others in the international community…

On the eve of the inauguration of Afghanistan's first democratically elected President, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that despite key political gains, the country faces broad security threats as coalition and other international troops reduce their ranks. In a new…

Calling Landmines a "Deadly Attraction" for Children, UNICEF says Countries That Care About Children Must Stop Producing Landmines NAIROBI/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 2 December 2004 -- Millions of antipersonnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war across the globe pose a vicious threat…