Are you wondering how to address displacement in your disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices? Would you like to learn more about how to reduce displacement risk, address displacement…
As hazards, disasters and climate change profoundly affect people’s lives and livelihoods, attention is turning toward opportunities to move people permanently out of harm’s way. Most commonly termed ‘Planned relocation’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
How can law respond to situations when people move across an international border in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation? During this webinar, leading scholars and experts…
Central America, 25-29 January 2021 – This week, government representatives from all seven member countries of the Central American Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters (CEPREDENAC) took part…
