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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsFrom 14 to 25 March 2022, the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) is taking place in New York.
It is the first time that disaster risk reduction has been considered within the Priority Theme of the CSW, "Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental…
General Debate – Commission on the Status of Women
As Delivered
Excellencies,
A few weeks ago, the IPCC released their latest report with unsettling findings.
Disasters, which have doubled over the last 20 years, could conceivably double again.
We could see the number of extreme temperature events tri…
7 March 2022 - The UNDRR Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) launched the Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) publication in commemoration of Women’s International Day.
The virtual seminar was attended by more than 65 experts and participants from the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Group, Governments of Algeria, Iraq, Jo…
Diverse leadership and adaptive social protection are critical factors for resilient and sustainable risk reduction and protection against the impacts of disaster and extreme climate events. Yet structural barriers, capacity gaps, discriminatory attitudes and stereotypes continue to hamper meaningful participation of marginalized groups in decision-maki…
“Moving ahead to 2030, we hope to see more and more women becoming agents of resilience.”
– Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori
At the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) in New York, UNDRR and partners hosted an event focused on the importance of a ge…
Disaster risks make up a high percentage of losses in relation to infrastructure, the economy and social sustainability in countries struck by disasters. The special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Mami Mizutori, supports the structuring of disaster prevention systems in vulnerable zones and th…
BANGKOK: The Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards have been granted to Ms. Esline Garaebiti, Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards, Environment, Energy and Disaster Management in Vanuatu and Dr. Homolata Borah, a researcher from India working with communit…