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Women and Youth Speak: Faces of Disaster Displacement at GP19
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…
Carrying The Inflatable Island during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019
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…
Disaster Displacement at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Geneva, Switzerland 13-17 May 2019 – Disaster Displacement will be a prominent topic at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19), notably addressed in a working session on disaster…
Cyclone Idai survivors struggle to rebuild devastated communities
By Charlie Yaxley, Peter Holmes à Court and Vania Turner in Buzi, Mozambique. Article first published on UNHCR’s website on 3 April 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Alissa Everett. Along a main road…
Governments meet in Fiji to address displacement caused by disasters and climate change in Pacific Island States
Suva, Fiji, 27 March 2019 – Participants from governments, the European Union (EU), UN agencies and civil society opened a two-day consultation today to address the risk of displacement associated…
UNHCR prepares to send aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in Zimbabwe
By Zinyange Auntony in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, and Catherine Wachiaya in Nairobi, Kenya, Article first published on UNHCR’s website on 25 March 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Zinyange Auntony. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…
