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URL copied to clipboard In January 2020, the severity of the coronavirus outbreak caught most people by surprise. Public attention was glued to terrorism. While the health risk to individuals received immediate attention, it took time for the media and authorities to recognise the wider societal consequences of the pandemic, including its impact on the health system. As Luka Biong Deng Kuol writes in a recent PRIO blog post on African responses: COVID-19 has exposed serious cracks in system...

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Anniversary virtual conference: ‘Waiting for disaster to strike is not an option’ 05/02/2021 - by the Climate Centre Hundreds of representatives from governments, UN, development and humanitarian agencies, universities, and other branches of civil society yesterday attended a virtual conference at the invitation of Fiji and France to mark the fifth anniversary of three key global policy frameworks on displacement from disasters and climate im...

02/04/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/03/2021 17:19 UNHCR and IOM call for improved safeguards for the displaced on the frontlines of climate emergency 04 February 2021 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are calling on states to strengthen the protection and assistance of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, ahead of a virtual conference co-hosted today, 4 February, with PDD, the state-led Platform...

IOM Joint IOM / UNHCR Press Release GENEVA (4 February 2020) – IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), are calling on states to strengthen the protection and assistance of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, ahead of a virtual conference co-hosted today, 4 February, with PDD, the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacement, currently chaired by the Government of Fiji, with the Government of France as vice-chair. This c...

In his search for grazing for his cattle in south-western Niger, Djouba Fedou, 60, repeatedly came into conflict with farmers.  © UNHCR/Boubacar Younoussa Siddo UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are calling on states to strengthen the protection and assistance of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, ahead of a virtual conference co-hosted today, 4 February, with PDD, the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacemen...

Joint IOM / UNHCR Press Release Geneva – IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), are calling on states to strengthen the protection and assistance of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, ahead of a virtual conference co-hosted today, 4 February, with PDD, the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacement, currently chaired by the Government of Fiji, with the Government of France as vice-chair.   This commemoration also ...

Disaster displacement is great humanitarian challenge of 21st century Format REMARKS BY MAMI MIZUTORI, UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on this important occasion to commemorate the adoption of three ground-breaking global initiatives. The five years that have passed since the adoption of the Sendai Framework have seen displacement by disasters become endemic in many parts of the world, regularly reachin...