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Reducing risk is the best humanitarian action, as world celebrates World Humanitarian Day

As the world celebrates World Humanitarian Day, UNISDR, the strategic arm of the United Nations working on disaster risk reduction, recognizes the valuable contribution of humanitarian workers who risk their lives everyday to help others, whilst emphasizing their crucial role in reducing disaster risk. “On this day we recognize the importance of humani…
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Disaster reduction critical to HIV/AIDS reduction

GENEVA, 1 December 2011 - Feng Min Kan, a Senior Advisor at the UN disaster risk reduction office (UNISDR) admits that not a lot of people immediately see the connection between disasters and AIDS. "It’s just one of those issues that are not very obvious and slips under the radar". “Just as we know that people do not have to die from disasters, we als…

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