Search
Results for " "
Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsPANAMA CITY, 8 July 2019 – Jamaica will host the region’s highest forum for reviewing progress on reducing disaster losses in Latin America and the Caribbean in July 2020 as the year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season gets underway.
The 7th Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be the first in the series to be staged in the Caribbean and tak…
GENEVA, 16 May 2019 – The Department of Civil Defence of Campinas, Brazil, the Mahila Housing Sewa Trust, India, and Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, are the three laureates of the 2019 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction. They have been recognised for initiatives which protect…
Lucas Hallel ASCOM/FUNAI Pataxó Indigenous people live in the village of Naõ Xohã, on the banks of the Paraopeba river damaged by the collapse of a mining dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.
By Mami Mizutori
The decision by Vale, the world’s largest manufacturer of iron ore, to decommission ten of its tailings dams in Brazil is welcome, but it will seem too…
Opening Remarks
SDG Summit Side-Event
Resilient Infrastructure:
Key to the Success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
25 September 2019, 13.15 - 14.30
Conference Room A, United Nations, New York
Delivered By:
Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk
Reduction and…
GENEVA, 26 February, 2019 - The Human Rights Council was told yesterday that “nothing lays bare inequality and discrimination like a disaster.”
The Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, added: “The failure to acknowledge human rights creates marginalized and vulnerable groups that face discrimination and exclusion. These vu…
GENEVA, 15 February, 2019 - The decision by Vale, the world’s largest manufacturer of iron ore, to decommission ten of its tailings dams in Brazil is welcome, but it will seem too little, and too late, for those who have lost loved ones and seen their environments destroyed by the failures of such structures.
Tailings dam failures over the last five ye…
GENEVA, 3 September 2019 – The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today expressed her condolences to the Government and people of The Bahamas following the reported loss of life as a result of Hurricane Dorian, an unprecedented storm which continues to batter the Bahamas and threaten the US mainland.…
SRSG WELCOME REMARKS
World Tsunami Awareness Day
Panel Discussion
5 November 2019, 1.15 pm - 2.30 pm, United Nations, New York
Excellencies, delegates, distinguished guests,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the fourth annual World Tsunami Awareness Day.
I am extremely pleased that His Excellency Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President…
SRSG Mami Mizutori, remarks
Local Leadership for Climate: Solutions to the Climate Emergency
21 September 2019, New York
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted in 2015, recognizes the crucial role of local governments and cities in avoiding the creation of new and reducing existing disaster risk and building resilience.…