Hundreds of thousands take shelter as new cyclone bears down on India
Published May 26, 2021 4:52am
Cyclone Yaas grew in the Bay of Bengal as rescuers on the opposite side of the country kept up the search for bodies from Cyclone Tauktae, which claimed at least 155 lives on May 14. KOLKATA, India - The second powerful cyclone to hit India in two weeks bore down on the east coast Wednesday, sending hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for emergency shelters ahead of the devastating winds and rain. Cyclone Yaas grew in the Bay of Bengal as rescuers on the opposite side of the country kept up the search for bodies from Cyclone Tauktae, which claimed at least 155 lives on May 14.
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 79 - Localisation and local humanitarian action
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Humanitarian Exchange is localisation+ and local humanitarian action. Five years ago this week, donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) committed within the Grand Bargain to increase multi-year investments in the institutional capacities of local and national responders, and to provide at least 25% of humanitarian funding to them as directly as possible. Since then, there is increasing consensus at policy and normative level, underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic, that local leadership should be supported. Localisation has gone from a fringe conversation among policy-makers and aid agencies in 2016 to a formal priority under the Grand Bargain. Wider global movements on anti-racism and decolonisation ha
India/Bangladesh: Millions threatened as cyclone spells double trouble
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Kuala Lumpur/Delhi/Dhaka, 25 May – Red Cross and Red Crescent teams are helping people stay safe in India and Bangladesh as a major cyclone threatens millions of people and devastating COVID-19 surges continue in both countries.
While India has been facing record COVID death rates, the eastern Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha are bracing for the very severe tropical Cyclone Yaas, the second major storm to hit the country in two weeks.
Udaya Regmi, South Asia head of Delegation, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said:
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, the ICRC President and global faith, health and humanitarian leaders have issued a joint call for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world. COVID 19 Treatment Centre in Aden, Yemen. (Picture: ICRC)
On the opening day of the World Health Assembly, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have said that global leaders must choose between “vaccine nationalism or human solidarity”.
In a joint Declaration today co-signed by international faith, health and humanitarian leaders, Archbishop Justin Welby and ICRC president Peter Maurer said that equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is a humanitarian imperative.