UNDRR News

The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat is starting a new collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), a professional association of 102 radio and television broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region. The purpose of

The UNISDR is taking the opportunity of The International Year of Microcredit to organise a number of events around the world to stimulate a debate on how safety nets and micro insurance can contribute to disaster risk reduction.

Representatives from Indian Ocean countries affected by the 26 December 2004 tsunami and other countries and experts on early warning systems will gather in Mauritius for the Second International Coordination Meeting for the Development of a Tsunami

In the case of last night’s earthquake, tsunami alerts were given after 40 minutes of the quake by the Japan Meteorology Agency to 6 Indian Ocean countries including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Tourists were evacuated from risk prone areas

Ministers of Environment from Asia and the Pacific will meet from 24 to 29 March 2005 in Seoul, Republic of Korea, at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific convened by the Economic and Social Commission

Experts from the United Nations and the Indian Ocean countries affected by the December tsunami gathered at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on 3-8 March 2005 to decide the ground rules for establishing a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. The

Experts from Indian Ocean countries affected by the 26 December tsunami and other countries will gather in Paris this week to plan a coordinated tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean. Organised by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic

High-level administrative policy-makers from the eleven countries most affected by the 26 December tsunami, will gather for three days in Tokyo, Japan from 22-24 February 2005 to understand how technically the early warning system on tsunami operates in

17 February 2005. More than 320,000 people perished last year in 366 natural disasters, according to figures announced today in Geneva by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) based in Brussels. The number of deaths is still

阪神淡路大震災から10年たった兵庫県神戸市で、1月18日から22日まで「国連防災世界会議(WCDR)」が開かれました。 Through its resolution A/RES/58/214, the United Nations General Assembly convened a World Conference on Disaster Reduction, to be held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005.