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Virtual Workshop Series | Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa
Virtual Workshop Series Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa April-June 2021 Natural hazards, disasters and…
Webinar | Implications for policy of a (post-?) COVID-19 world…
What are the implications of COVID-19, as a particular kind of a natural (biological) hazard, and its impact and implications for global trends and debates addressed in previous sessions? Environmental…
Five years after Sendai, Paris and the endorsement of the Protection Agenda
Virtual Conference – 4 February 2021 Five years after Sendai, Paris and the endorsement of the Protection Agenda – what has been achieved, what has been overlooked, and what needs…
Pacific governments call for urgent action on disaster displacement in light of the climate crisis
UN Press Release 11 February 2021 Suva/Geneva – Climate change is not a “doomsday proposition” but a living existential threat to humanity, Pacific government officials have warned. The stark warning…
Fiji assumes Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
Geneva, Switzerland, 4 February 2021 – The Government of Fiji chaired the first Steering Group meeting since assuming Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) on 1 January 2021.…
IOM and UNHCR call for improved safeguards for the displaced on the frontlines of climate emergency
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…
