Twelve participants from six Pacific countries gathered in Apia, for a four-day regional workshop, the final phase of the UNITAR Hiroshima Women's ...

A two-day workshop on “Disaster Management and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir” began at the University of Jammu today. As per a statement, the programme has been ...

Doha, Qatar: Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, and with the sponsorship of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

The disaster revealed important shortcomings in Haiti's overall national disaster risk management system. After the January 2010 earthquake, reducing vulnerability, improving emergency preparedness ...