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Sanitation crisis: It's time to talk about the solutions

, Asia-Plus A statement by Bekele Geleta, the Secretary General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) posted on IFRC's website notes that it is time to talk about the solutions to the sanitation crisis. Asia Plus, 1 month ago

China Ups Its Disaster Preparedness

Written by IRIN Fending off a list of disasters China, which annually faces almost every disaster possible - including earthquakes, floods, cyclones and landslides - is doing something right in the field of disaster risk reduction, experts say. A ...

Asia Sentinel, 2 weeks ago Can Disaster Risk Reduction Lessons Be Learned From China? AllAfrica.com, 2 weeks ago

An Alta Village Fights for Life

San Luis, Aurora Ama Duwit and Ina Miling, an elderly Alta couple, sat in a corner of their small hut beside the river in this former logging camp in Barangay Diteki, a forest village in San Luis, Aurora (230 kms. northwest of Manila). This village ...

Bulatlat.com, 2 weeks ago

Asian regional road safety seminar focuses on safer walking and riding

About 200 leading road safety experts, practitioners, business representatives and government officials from around the world gathered in Manila for the Global Road Safety Partnership's (GRSP) Asia Seminar on April 2-3 and the International Road ...

Automobile Association Philippines, 4 weeks ago

Co-op's $1 million donation and local employee help gives boost to Red Cross emergency response in Western Canada (International Committee of the Red Cross)

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World News Network, 1 month ago

Bali Process has three more members

The United States of America, the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) joined the Bali Process as new members. In welcoming them here on Tuesday Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa said "the presence ...

Antara News, 1 month ago

Landslide risk at record high after months of rain

Peru Rains, landslides and overflowing rivers continue this month. CSF Rieti http://digilander.libero.it/csfrieti/index.html The National Service of Meteorology and H... published: 14 Feb 2012 author: Peru Rains, landslides and overflowing rivers ...

World News Network, 1 month ago