Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2019 – The side-event on Addressing Internal Displacement Associated with Disasters and Conflict: Planning for the Long Haul took place in the margins of the United Nations Economic and Social Council Humanitarian Affairs Segment (ECOSOC HAS) …
Geneva, Switzerland, 1-2 July 2019 - Members of the Task Force on Displacement (TFD), including UNFCCC Executive Committee members from a number of regionally diverse countries, international organizations, a civil society group and the PDD, met to finalise a set…
Geneva, Switzerland, 1 July 2019 - The Government of Bangladesh held its last Steering Group meeting as Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and passed on the baton to its Vice-Chair, the Government of France, to lead PDD…
Background: In 2018, it is estimated that 17.2 million people were newly displaced as a result of disasters linked to natural hazards, a majority of which were weather and climate related. This number is likely much higher when accounting for…
Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2019 - Disaster displacement will be discussed during the side-event of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Humanitarian Affairs Segment on Addressing internal displacement associated with disasters and conflict: Planning for the long haul.…
For its tenth edition in 2019 the COAL Prize will, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys, tackle an essential subject: displacement related to disasters and climate change. Since 2009, an estimated one person per second has been…
The Regional Consultation towards a framework for regional cooperation on human mobility in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change in the Caribbean will take place on 6-7 June, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.…
The final version of the Words into Action Guidelines– Disaster displacement: How to reduce risk, address impacts and strengthen resilience (Words into Action on Disaster Displacement) was officially launched during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19), receiving interest…
Attorney Leah Caminong and Ms. Nur Safriti Lasibanj held a whole room in silence. Telling their own stories of how they had been displaced in the context of disaster during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19) side event…
In collaboration with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys will present an exhibition of contemporary art pieces from nine international artists to highlight…
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