Rapports

Background Monsoon rains in Pakistan have caused severe flooding, resulting in an affected population currently estimated as greater than one million. The number of persons displaced is unclear. Many hundreds are known to have been injured and there has been…

Sonali Huria Research Officer, IPCS e-mail: sonali@ipcs.org Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Maldives recently signed an agreement with the European Union (EU), which is aimed at assisting developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Asia to battle the onslaught of…

SG/SM/13003 SC/9974 Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks to the Security Council, today, 7 July, in New York: I thank the Government of Nigeria for convening this debate, and I commend the Security Council for its continued engagement on the protection…

Press Release No:2010/520/EAP MANILA, JUNE 29, 2010-The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved a US$4.974 million grant for a pilot project called the Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) designed to enable targeted rural communities cope with the impact of…

As 22 million people in Vietnam may lose their home because of climate change, Japan and France have formed a foundation to help Vietnam prevent this danger. On June 18, the Ministry of Finance, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),…

KABUL, 16 June 2010 (IRIN) - Only seconds after a convoy of armoured military vehicles passed Fawad Tokhi, 35, at about 8.20am in the south of Kabul city on 18 May, he was wounded in a suicide attack. "I was…

Summary Statement: - The accumulated precipitation in the north, west and southern Afghanistan was above the long term average. However, northeast (Badakshan,Takhar and Baghlan), eastern ( Nooristan, Laghman, Kunar and Nangarhar), central parts (Bamyan, Panjsher, Daikundi, Parwan, Panjsher, Kapisa, Kabul, Logar…

ANTIPOLO, Philippines, June 11 (UNHCR) Tossed by one typhoon after another, Maria Teresa Cawili is now grateful for small mercies - like having a space of her own after spending months in crowded evacuation centres for victims of the…

10 Jun 2010 18:02:21 GMT * Millions in South Asia at risk from climate change -study * Glacial melting to affect river flows in coming decades * Pakistan particularly at risk By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE, June 11 (Reuters) - Increased melting…

08 Jun 2010 04:00:04 GMT * Crisis boosts crime, violent demonstrations * Defence spending, conflict risk broadly falling * Fringe euro zone unrest risk rises By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - The global financial crisis has made the…