Pakistan Floods
A boy is silhouetted in front of a washing line at Utmanzai relief camp near Charsadda, northwest Pakistan, on September 24, 2010. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the floods in Pakistan 'the worst natural disaster the United Nations has responded to in its 65-year history. Ban Ki-moon requested a record two billion dollar international aid effort for the Asian country, four times his initial request.
Connections
Around the web
-
Pakistan: UC Ranking, Sindh, Pakistan Floods 2011
"Humanitarian News" is now easier and faster to browse on mobile devices. Our friends at Macaroni Bros developed a beautiful mobile theme, automatically detecting if you use a computer, phone or tablet! Source: UN Development Programme, UN Office for the from Humanitarian News Read more »
-
The Osama bin Laden documents
Scores of pages of al Qaeda documents seized in last year's U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden were released Thursday . They comprise 175 pages in the original Arabic of letters and drafts from bin Laden and other key al Qaeda figures, including the A from CNN Read more »
-
EU hands extra 20 mln euros to Pakistan flood victims
An aerial view shows the army camp of flood effected people in Umar Kot on November 27, 2011. Aid groups warned on November 9 that vital relief efforts for five million people affected by floods in Pakistan's fertile southern belt could be cut back becau from Dawn Read more »
-
Global Partners Confront Impacts of Climate Extremes on Development
Joint action needed to link disaster risk management, climate adaptation WASHINGTON, April 27, 2012—On the heels of a sobering UN report on dramatic climate extremes expected to occur around the world, officials from donor and developing countries, along from The World Bank Read more »
-
Climate change posing multiple challenges for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Experts on Monday said that South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular were confronting multiple challenges due to climate change and water scarcity issues. The experts expressed these views at a workshop, 'Climate Change', organised by from EcoEarth News Read more »
