Rapports

9 February 2011 - The Government of Afghanistan today took a step towards mitigating climate change by starting work on its first ever country report documenting emissions and removals of greenhouse gases within the United Nations framework. The Initial National…

COLOMBO, February 8, 2011 - UNICEF is dispatching more supplies to support communities hit by renewed, severe flooding in Sri Lanka. The latest batch of supplies includes 19,000 school kits(including notebooks, pens, pencils) 10,600 reinforced tarpaulins, 60 drums of chlorine bleaching…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Governments in Asia and the Pacific need to prepare for a large increase in climate-induced migration in the coming years, says a forthcoming report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Typhoons, cyclones, floods and drought are forcing more…

By Manny Mogato MANILA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The emergence of a splinter group in the Philippines' largest Muslim separatist movement is a serious risk to sustaining a ceasefire, the government's top negotiator said on Monday ahead of peace talks…

New NGO inter-agency group learning review highlights successes and challenges of Disaster Risk Reduction initiatives The massive human and economic costs of recent disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the floods in Pakistan have once…

BANGKOK, 28 January 2011 (IRIN) - Recent fighting between government forces and armed ethnic groups in eastern Myanmar has increased the risk of civilian landmine injuries, experts warn. "With the increase in fighting, mine use will go up, and more…

Foreword Today half of the world's population is under threat from the forces of nature - one fifth of the earth's surface is regularly affected by earthquakes, vol-canic eruptions, floods, drought, landslides and storms. There are indications that such events…

Up to 400,000 children in Sri Lanka are now facing a food crisis caused by the devastating floods, Save the Children warned today as it launched £1 million appeal to help those in worst-hit areas in the east of…

COLOMBO, 12 January 2011 (IRIN) - Ongoing storms have dumped more rain in one eastern district of Sri Lanka than witnessed in a century, according to the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC). Nationwide, storms have hit some two million…

Executive Summary: Effective humanitarian coordination aims to ensure the best use of resources to achieve the most appropriate and relevant response to the needs of people affected by a crisis. Increasingly in Bangladesh, as in other contexts,…