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Displaying 90 of about 143 resultsGENEVA, 18 March, 2019 – The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today extended her condolences to the peoples and governments of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe on the tragic loss of life resulting from Cyclone Idai at the weekend.
“I extend my deepest sympathy to all those who have lost loved ones in what is the wors…
INCHEON, 18 March 2019 – Competing priorities, changes in political leadership and insufficient capacities.
These are just some of the challenges facing cities around the world as they prepare their disaster risk reduction plans and enhance resilience to future shocks.
Representatives from twenty cities in the Making Cities Resilient Campaig…
NAIROBI, 15 March, 2019 - Hunger, chronic poverty and the effects of climate change demand that we step up our efforts to reduce disaster risk and drought risk in particular.
That was the message delivered today in an official statement to the UN Environment Assembly by the UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori.
“I am he…
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, 24 January, 2019 – Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,733 lives lost in disasters last year while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, according to analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in its EM-…
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.…
Statement by Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
General Assembly - Second Committee
14 October 2019
Introduction of the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of the
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentl…
Interview with Veladio Erazo Masgo, Deputy Manager of Disaster Risk at the municipality of San Juan de Lurigancho
Question: What are the greatest challenges facing your city?
The biggest challenge that we face is the local authority engagement and increasing the knowledge of the importance of disaster risk reduction. Another challenge is how to shar…
Situated on the shores of Lake Victoria, the port city of Kisumu in western Kenya faces many of the challenges confronting developing urban centres in Africa. Kisumu is Kenya’s third largest city. Its 600,000 population swells to over one million during the day with sixty per cent of the city’s residents living in ever-expanding slums or informal…
At the mouth of the Thanlwin River where it disgorges into the Andaman sea, sits the city of Mawlamyine, the main trading centre and seaport in south eastern Myanmar. Capital of Mon State, Mawlamyine is the largest city in the state and also the wettest. It is spread over an alluvial floodplain, flanked by the Thanlwin and Attran rivers whic…
La Isla Barrio stands in stark contrast to the popular images of palm-fringed beaches frequented by tourists visiting the Dominican Republic. La Isla is one of the many illegal settlements in Santo Domingo Este, the eastern municipality of the nation’s capital. This sprawling community of 300 homes has been constructed on steep hillsides which lead do…
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…
Statement by SRSG Ms. Mami Mizutori to the Session
“Review of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Implementation and
Interrelations Among Goals: Discussion on SDG 13 – Climate Action”
of the 2019 High-level Political Forum
12 July 2019 – New York
Excellencies,
Climate change has become a major driver of risk and amplifier of disaster losses…
Opening Ceremony
International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
19 March 2019
New Delhi, India
Speech
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster
Risk Reduction and
Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Salutations
H.E. Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairperson, NI…
National Workshop to Kick-off the CubeSat Technology Project
“Toward Developing the First Lebanese NanoSatellite”
16.15 - 18.00, 9 April 2019
Beirut
Remarks
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk
Reduction
Your Excellency Ms. May Choudiac – State Minister of Administrative
Dev…