As a leader in the NGO Committee on Ageing at the United Nations in New York, I am honoured to have received a scholarship from the United Nations to assure older people’s concerns were heard at the ...

Thank you for the opportunity to address this plenary discussion on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. I appreciate today’s theme, which looks beyond natural ...

The climate crisis is upon us, and we are only just beginning to endure the consequences of the neglect we have shown to our planet. Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, the proliferation of extreme ...

(TNS) - The vital role of women in reducing the risk of disasters is being highlighted in a regional conference that opened yesterday in Hanoi. During the three-day “Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction ...

An 84-year-old woman sits outside her room, where she lives alone, at a temporary housing complex for evacuees from the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which followed the March 2011 ...

More than 900 participants from national and local governments, academia, private sector, international organizations, and civil society from around the world gathered in Sendai, Japan from 26-28 ...

According to him, the Sendai Framework, which was adopted in 2015, represents a landmark internal agreement to chart the course for global disaster risk reduction efforts. The Director-General, ...

Natural and man-made disasters have significant social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2015, the United Nations formally recognised, through the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction promotes a global culture of risk awareness and disaster reduction by celebrating how people around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. This ...

MANILA, (PIA) — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. opened the 2024 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) on Tuesday, Oct. 15, calling for increased investments in ...