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From IOM News #1/99 In January 1999, IOM Director General Brunson McKinley travelled to Central America to witness at fi rst hand the devastation from Hurricane Mitch and its consequences especially in the field of fo rced migration. The damage…
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International meeting calls for intensification of fight against corruption STOCKHOLM - An international donors' meeting on Central America received new recommendations on ensuring transparency, mitigating ecological and social vulnerability and promoting decentralization as three key elements in helping countries of the…
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HR/CRC/99/25 Hurricane Mitch Seriously Harmed Situation of Children, Government Delegation Says The Committee on the Rights of the Child began consideration this morning of the first periodic report of Honduras and was told by a Government delegation that Hurricane Mitch in…
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HR/CRC/99/26 Calls for Review of Legislation Related to Children, More Protections for Street Children, Greater Efforts to Change Cultural Attitudes The Committee on the Rights of the Child offered preliminary conclusions and recommendations this afternoon on the first periodic report of Honduras,…
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Donors meet Central American governments this week in Sweden to confirm $6.2 billion in aid to the victims of Hurricane Mitch, Reuters reports. Last October's hurricane triggered floods and mudslides which killed nearly 10,000, made two million homeless, and caused…
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Rebuilding Central America, from our house to your house When Hurricane Mitch struck Central America last October, the tragedy was immense - over 9,000 people killed, thousands more missing, more than 1,000,000 people left homeless. Hundreds of devastated communities in Honduras and…
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NEWS RELEASE Media Contact: Beth Schaefer, News & Information Officer Phone: (301) 680-6355 Fax: (301) 680-6370 TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS-The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) recently presented two VaxiCool portable, solar, ice-free, vaccine refrigeration units to the Honduran First Lady Mary Flakes…
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By Eric Green, USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government and the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) have agreed to work together on a pilot project to help replant the forests in Honduras that were devastated by Hurricane…
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The unforgiving sun was blazing as always, but the air was charged with expectations and hope. Around two hundred people, from all over the neighbouring countryside, packed the small town, waiting patiently for their turn to collect the first…
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From WEEKLY NEWS 18/99 Six months ago, Marilia Palma, 13, lived on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, with her mother and three brothers in a small house. Now, Marilia lives with her family in cubicle C-408, in…
