Rapports

GA/AB/3943 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Fifth Committee 26th Meeting (AM) Also Recommends Advisory Committee Appointment; Considers Pensions for Ad Litem Judges, Mandate Extension for Judges Helping Reduce New Dispute Tribunal's Backlog Taking up a range of topics, the Fifth Committee was told today that it…

In order to help Vietnam respond and adapt to climate change, Japan will give Vietnam a preferential loan of 450 million USD, Denmark pledged to support with 53 million USD, and the World Bank and UNDP are also committed…

Republic of the Philippines CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES FOURTEENTH CONGRESS Third Regular Session REPUBLIC ACT NO. ____ AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROVIDING FOR THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK…

Amnesty International calls on both sides to protect Afghan civilians as NATO and Afghan forces continue a major military offensive in the southern province of Helmand. "About 10,000 civilians have fled the conflict zone, but thousands more are caught up…

by Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob Cagayan de Oro City (5 February) -- The Department of Education has come up with a Disaster Risk Reduction Resource Manual (DRRRM) that is responsive to the needs of the DepEd family during the occurrence of disasters. Dr.…

By Cai U. Ordinario Reporter The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) recently signed a memorandum of agreement with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) for the Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (DRR/CCA) in Local Development Planning and Decision-making Processes…

The Disaster Management Center (DMC) in collaboration with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and with the technical support of the Department of Agrarian Development has commenced a project for the development of the small tank (Cascade) system for reducing the…

World leaders are set to fail their first test on climate change since Copenhagen and put the world on track for almost four degrees of warming, said Oxfam International today, ahead of the 31 January deadline for countries to…

MANILA, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) - Nurina was 14 when she married Sid, who was 23. "We were close friends. He treated me like a younger sister," Nurina said. "People started to gossip and my family insisted that we…

The presidential election will take place on the 26th of January. The campaign leading to the election took a bloody turn yesterday (13th of January 2010) with the killing of Kusumawahi Kurupuarachi at Hungama in Tangalle in Hambanthota district,…