COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters

Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.

Rapid gender analysis in Haiti reveals earthquake-related impacts on women and girls

Gender inequality, earthquake and flood impacts in Albania

Taking into account women’s needs in recovery planning

Wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy increases preterm birth risk, Stanford study finds

In Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction, women masons are breaking gender barriers

Nepal: Why more women die in disasters

Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.

Insights into behaviour during a fire could improve evacuation planning

Australia: Domestic violence will spike in the bushfire aftermath, and governments can no longer ignore it

Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal

With warning drums and river clean-ups, Indonesian women head off disasters

Women often suffer worst when floods or earthquakes hit - but given the right resources, they are well-placed to protect their communities

India: In rural Manipur, women feel the heat of climate change

In the Caribbean, colonialism and inequality mean hurricanes hit harder

Domican Republic: women who build resilience

"Nepal one year on, most vulnerable people risk exclusion from earthquake recovery"

World Population Day 2015 more than ever relevant to quake-hit Nepal

APEC: Women lead way in disaster risk reduction in vulnerable Asia-Pacific - Press release

Women entrepreneurs, civil society groups and disaster management and gender equality officials assembled in Sendai

Daily report of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR)

UNDP: USD 3.64 million grant approved by Japan in support of local-level resilience and disaster preparedness in Serbia