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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsOver the past two years, a record number of people have been killed in disasters across the world. As we approach the anniversary of the 26 December tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the evidence is clear that education can dramatically reduce this human toll. A young English survivor of the Indian Ocean disaster brought this message to the United Nations in…
Children are among the most vulnerable population group during disasters, particularly while they are attending school. They often die as a result of a lack of risk awareness and poor quality of the physical infrastructure. In Pakistan, for instance, more than 17,000 school children died while attending class during the October 2005 earthquake.
When the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit in December 2004, over 250,000 people were killed throughout Asia, but only seven people died out of a population of approximately 83,000 on Simeulue Island, just 40km from the epicenter of the earthquake. Nearly the entire population of the island survived thanks to the people's inherited knowledge of tsunamis handed d…
As part of its current campaign on education called “Disaster risk reduction starts at school”, the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching today an on-line game aimed at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Children will learn how the location and construction materials can…
As the United States commemorates the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history, the director of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat recalls the importance of education in disaster risk reduction policies.
A young English survivor of the Indian Ocean disaster brought this message to the United Nations in New York today. Tilly Smith, an eleven year old schoolgirl was on holiday in Thailand with her family when the tsunami hit. She recognized the signs of the receding sea and warned her parents of the impending tsunami, which led to hotel guests being rapid…
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat is starting a new collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), a professional association of 102 radio and television broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region. The purpose of this new collaboration is to develop new radio and television products to better educate and prepare p…
In the case of last night’s earthquake, tsunami alerts were given after 40 minutes of the quake by the Japan Meteorology Agency to 6 Indian Ocean countries including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Tourists were evacuated from risk prone areas in Thailand, while people left their homes in Sri Lanka and India and moved to safer ground. The hig…
10 October 2007. To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction and the conclusion of its two year campaign on education, the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching today a new publication showing how children can be better educated to face disasters.
A global campaign for disaster reduction education was launched at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters today by Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General and Sálvano Briceño, Director of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat. Also present at the event were several children who have lived through natural disasters, includi…
Children are among the most vulnerable targets when natural hazards occur. Thousands of school children were among the 220,000 victims of last month’s Indian Ocean tsunami and thousands more have perished in floods, earthquakes and hurricanes across the globe.