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- Revisiting tsunami's communication lessons
- A new book, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book released during Third Global Knowledge Conference held in Kuala Lumpur in mid December takes ...
- Children are highest casualties in Bangladesh cyclone
- Aid agencies have put the total death count at over 5,000 – more than half being children – four days after Cyclone Sidr wrecked Bangladesh’s southern coast. ...
- Tsunami report card
- UNICEF has recently released 2007 Tsunami Report, highlighting progress made for children in last three years. In 2004, tsunami waves had claimed more than ...
- Communication lessons
- Taking a critical look at the 2004 Tsunami and its lessons, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book by TVE Asia Pacific explores how the public ...
- Linking culture and disaster
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Mountain Forum are organising a global e-conference on cultural ...
- Political bickering over Kosi floods
- More than a month after the Kosi floods in eastern India, the state and union governments are busy passing the buck. The state’s water resource minister feels ...
- Disabled people await post-cyclone aid
- More than 30,000 cyclone-affected people with physical disabilities living in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta are in urgent need of help. Very little of ...
- Euro 4.5 million aid for Kosi flood victims
- The European Commission has allocated a further Euro 4.5 million in aid for flood victims in Bihar, India and Nepal. It had earlier moved quickly to provide ...
- Cyclone hit in Myanmar lack proper shelters
- Living under tattered roofs five months after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, the people have exhausted their savings in repairing makeshift homes. These ...
- Cyclone-hit Myanmar monasteries need repair
- Cyclone Nargis had destroyed hundreds of monasteries that played an important social, cultural, educational and religious role in Myanmar. Many of them are in ...
- US court revives Bhopal water contamination case
- A US court has admitted a petition filed on behalf of people living in the vicinity of Union Carbide factory in Indian city of Bhopal. More than two decades ...
- Fresh floods displace thousands in western Nepal
- People in Nepal’s eastern districts remain uprooted due to last month’s Kosi river overflow. With recent torrential rains having caused massive flooding in the ...
- Nepal’s new agents of change
- Fresh out of peer group training sessions delivered by government departments, young adults of Nepal are addressing the problems of flood survivors in several ...
- Recognising the elderly in emergencies
- WHO’s recent publication, Older persons in emergencies: An active ageing perspective focuses on the elderly in conflict related and naturally ...
- India to improve cyclone prediction
- As spiraling cyclones hit coastal areas, thousands of human lives are lost. While the Indian sub-continent produces only 7% of the globe’s tropical cyclones, ...
- Synergising disaster preparedness and adaptation
- Identifying the most vulnerable locations and populations and strengthening local people's capacities has to be in the centre of any longer-term adaptation ...
- Getting communities ready for disasters
- Makeshift boats, bamboo stretchers, ropeway slung are some of the innovative means that communities in eastern India are using to prepare against disasters. ...
- Pakistan quake leaves hundreds dead
- The October 29 quake in the south-west Balochistan province has claimed more than 300 lives and left 70,000 homeless, say authorities. Agencies are now ...
- World Congress on Disaster Management
- The first ever World Congress on Disaster Management will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 21 to 24, 2008. Organised by the Disaster Management, ...
- Old disaster poses new threat
- Nearly 24 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy struck in India, toxic waste lying in factory’s premises continues to threaten human lives and environment. While ...
- Pakistan quake victims living in subzero temperatures
- In Balochistan province, victims of October earthquake are in urgent need of winterised tents and shelters as the temperatures plummet below zero. The ...
- 'Let’s unpack the Kosi lesson'
- Another year of devastating floods in India yet we remained unprepared to avert the great human tragedy, says Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for ...
- NGO provides succour to Kosi flood victims
- For Kosi flood victims in eastern India, dawn may still not be in sight but some organisations coming to their rescue have kept their hopes afloat. An NGO ...
- Being prepared against floods
- Villagers in Orissa have learnt to cope with the near-annual phenomenon of floods affecting this state in eastern India. Children are spreading door to door ...
- Thousands affected by floods in Philippines
- Incessant rains have caused flooding in Philippines’ southern island of Mindanao, leaving nearly half a million homeless. Extensive damage of crops and public ...
- No water for Cyclone Aila victims in Bangladesh
- Survivors of Cyclone Aila in southern Bangladesh are now faced with shortage of drinking water due to contamination of ponds, wells and tube wells. Relief ...
- Death toll mounts in tsunami hit Samoa
- Rescue and recovery operations are underway in the tsunami-hit South Pacific islands of Samoa and American Samoa. Hundreds of civilians have been injured and ...
- Tsunami survivors still to be rehabilitated
- Four years after the tsunami hit parts of India, Sri Lanka and other countries in south-east Asia causing extensive damage to both life and property, people ...
- Climate migration may reach unprecedented levels
- A new report by UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security, CARE International and Columbia University’s Center for International Earth ...
- Cyclone Aila hit areas fear disease outbreak
- Fear of epidemic looms large across Bangladesh and India’s eastern coast after Cyclone Aila slammed the region last week. According to international NGO ...
