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10 May 2011 - 5:40pmThe United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) launched the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011, Revealing Risk, Redefining Development, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction today in Geneva. The report stresses the need for the international... -
3 May 2011 - 8:51pmWith the onset of this year’s rainy season, the official number of people affected by flooding in Colombia has risen to 3 million, with 410 dead and another 482 missing. Last year, flooding affected over 2 million people, many of whom have yet to receive aid. Governors in some of the affected... -
26 April 2011 - 7:06pmASG Catherine Bragg is in Quito, Ecuador this week, to attend the Fourth Regional Meeting on Enhancing International Humanitarian Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbeanand to discuss global humanitarian issues and regional challenges with senior representatives of the Government of Ecuador.... -
1 April 2011 - 12:50pmOn April 1 2011, Japan’s Self Defense Force and the US military launched a three-day, 25,000 personnel joint operation to recover the bodies of people still unaccounted for in the Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefecture coastal areas where over 16,000 people remain missing. Recovering bodies of the... -
31 March 2011 - 11:17amOn 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter Scale and 10 km depth struck the southern parts of Shan State in the East of the Union of Myanmar (population: 3,870,921) — approximately 300 miles southeast of Mandalay seismological observatory. It was recorded at 20:29:30 hrs Myanmar...
