Rapports

Norwegian mountain experts are now in Pakistan to train humanitarian workers in order to prevent illness or fatal accidents in the mountains. Hundreds of national and international humanitarian staff are working in the largest winter emergency operation ever - with extreme…

While relief flights to some regions have resumed, icy temperatures continue to pose a threat to earthquake survivors and create challenges for relief workers. By some reports, Pakistan is under the grip of the worst cold spell in 35…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kaung (1), who was born in Thailand of Burmese parents, was ten years old when a trafficker paid his estranged father 1,000 baht (US$25) for him while his mother was temporarily away from home. The trafficker then resold…

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4 (APP): The government, in collaboration with its international partners, will provide heated communal tents to high risk groups in the earthquake affected areas. The decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Health…

Key Findings and Recommendations The NRVA 2005 was the second national exercise in data collection on risk and vulnerability factors that affect the Afghan population. The main objective of NRVA 2005 was to gather information to update and guide policy-making…

The ministries of Narcotics Control and Health and the UN Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) will jointly work to prevent possibility of multiple stresses leading to drug addiction among quake victims, a workshop was told here Monday. The workshop…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] MUZAFFARABAD, 29 November (IRIN) - Parts of at least 12 villages in Pakistan's quake zone could be wiped out by landslides and floods and must be evacuated, a…

JAKARTA, Nov 18, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Indonesia has activated the first stage of tsunami early warning system in the water off Sumatra island to avoid a repeat of last year's huge deaths in a quake-triggered tsunami on…

JAKARTA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Indonesia has activated the first stage of a tsunami early warning system off the coast of Sumatra to prevent a repeat of last year's huge quake-triggered waves that left 170,000 people dead or missing,…

With freezing rains speeding up the race against winter and disease among hundreds of thousands of survivors of Pakistan's devastating earthquake, the United Nations has so far received in contributions and commitments less than a fifth of the $550…