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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Afghanistan remained one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters and the crisis has worsened after a ban on women working for NGOs, Human Rights Watch said in a report, according to ToloNews.
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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The organization in a statement said two-thirds of Afghanistan's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition and women and girls remain at most risk.
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MHA conducts Annual Conference of Relief Commissioners, Secretaries to rev
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Conference was held to review the preparedness of states and UTs for dealing with any natural disasters that may occur during the coming South-West Monsoon season.
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Israel continues preparedness for natural disasters
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Ministry for Regional Cooperation has worked in recent years to train rescue and emergency teams, with the understanding that an event of this type of earthquake may affect not only the State of Israel but the entire regional space.
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UNESCO calls for more protection for artists under attack
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The international community must provide greater protection to artists caught up in armed conflict, political instability, and natural disasters, the UN Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new report.
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World Earth Day: Bal Raksha Bharat launches report to examine disaster ris
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI/NewsVoir): Megacities have drawn much of the attention when it comes to urban disaster risk. Mapping the terrain of interaction between disasters and at-risk children, Bal Raksha Bharat (globally known as Save the Children), launched a report - Child-centred
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Dubai Holding supports '1 Billion Meals Endowment' campaign with AED 6 mn
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Aiming to establish the largest Ramzan sustainable food aid endowment fund, the campaign aims to provide a food safety net for underprivileged populations in countries struggling with food insecurity, and to fight hunger and malnutrition, especially among victims of crises and natural disast
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Demonetisation, unscientific implementation of GST caused disaster: Kerala
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"We have seen the crises that came as a result of demonetisation and experienced disasters due to unscientific implementation of GST", said Vijayan.
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Afghanistan: At least 1 killed, 10 injured due to floods in Takhar provinc
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The province reported both financial and human losses from the natural calamity. Many homes were demolished, and the flash flood devastated thousands of acres of agricultural land.
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J-K administration to set up Emergency Operation Centers in 20 districts
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The process of construction of the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) has been started in Budgam district which will have a complete disaster management plan under National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) 2019 and it will be implemented in all districts.
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Response to disaster has to be integrated, not isolated: PM Modi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while speaking at the 5th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure on Tuesday stressed that in a closely connected world, the impact of disasters would not just be local, and subsequent responses have to be integrated and not isolated.
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J-K administration to set up Emergency Operation Centers in 20 districts t
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to set up state-of-art Emergency Operation Centers (EOC) in all 20 districts to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters in the region, informed a government statement.
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