COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters

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

From victims to agents of change

How women recovered from the 2010 tsunami in Chile

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

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

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

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

Australia: Researchers investigate the impacts of bushfires on the Blue Mountains LGBTI community

Risk and disaster management: The importance of making cities resilient

Local communities plead for greater involvement in disaster risk reduction

Empowering women reduces disaster risks

Investments in disaster risk management essential to sustaining growth and reducing poverty

Ghana: International Day for Disaster Reduction marked in Upper East

Fiji: Disaster management week celebrations in Levuka

Fiji: International Disaster Reduction Day 2012