Informes

Reports Progress in Recovery in Aceh and Nias New York - 20 July: Completing a three-day visit to Banda Aceh, Indonesia on July 19, the UN Secretary General's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, Eric Schwartz, welcomed continued progress on the…

Eighteen months after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in a dozen countries, a United Nations-backed early warning system, which experts say could have saved scores of thousands of lives had it existed at the time,…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] MUZAFFARABAD, 23 June (IRIN) - Some 11,000 residents of 30 villages around the city of Muzaffarabad, capital of quake-hit Pakistani-administered Kashmir will be evacuated from their houses by…

More than 130 experts from over 20 countries opened a United Nations-sponsored workshop in Bangkok to push ahead with a tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean that could save scores of thousands of lives in a reoccurrence…

IOM is working with Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) to include Burmese migrant workers in a tsunami early warning evacuation exercise this week. The exercise, organized by DDPM and the German international aid agency GTZ, will be…

Merlin, the British medical aid charity working in the earthquake zone in Java, has warned of disease risks to survivors taking shelter in chicken sheds. Dr Yolanda Bayugo, Merlin's health director in Indonesia, raised concerns today with the Ministry of…

Save the Children is concerned at the increased risks to the safety of children as families try to recover in the areas of Java affected by the earthquake. Around 40,000 children were affected by the earthquake and are coping with…

Country Stability and Forceful Events (relative) Risk Assessment: The situation in Afghanistan has changed from the past year. Last winter we could observe a decline in the number of Forceful Events associated with an increase of the Country…

Risk Assessment: Kashmir's Country Stability kept rising until January and started declining from February onwards, whereas the Forceful Events indicator was developing exactly opposite. The positive development of Country Stability and the receding intensity of Forceful Events had started during…

Even as we pray for the victims amid the mounting toll of the Java quake and dispatch the Philippine humanitarian mission to the center of the tragedy where the survivors are most in need, I am directing the NDCC…