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Delivered September 6, 2007

News and Press Release in English on Timor-Leste about Disaster Management, Flood and Tropical Cyclone; published on 11 May 2023 by PDC

How hazardous materials from quake rubble may have unleashed a health catastrophe for a generation

The founder of non-profit Roots of Peace will receive the $250,000 prize for her work to replace mines with vines in post-conflict regions over more than 25 years.

Environmental health professionals and experts said that huge plumes of dust released from demolished buildings carried poisons into rivers and plants, lungs and organs, risking serious health problems for years to come

Changes he spearheaded in 2001 helped avert disaster. He later led the United Nations Development Program.

Founder of non-profit Roots of Peace will receive the $250,000 prize for her work to replace mines with vines in post-conflict regions over more than 25 years.

Last month, Barbadian Gender Rights Advocate and Founder of the regional Life In Leggings movement, Ronelle King attended the The Economic and Social Council…

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA — Two Nigerian women abducted as schoolgirls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been rescued, the West African nation's military has said. One has a year-old baby while the second gave birth to her second child days after her freedom. Hauwa Maltha and Esther...

Two Nigerian women abducted as schoolgirls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been rescued, the West African nation’s military has said. One had a year-old baby while the second gave birth to her second child days after her freedom. Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus were among 276 schoolgirls abducted in April 2014…