The Philippines hosted the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, which marks the country’s implementation of the Sendai Framework. The United Nations says it is the first ...

On First Anniversary of Sendai Framework Adoption, Deputy Secretary-General Says Disaster Risk Reduction Plays Key Role in Saving Lives, Leaving No One Behind The United Nations is scaling up ...

HE the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani participated in the resumed part of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the midterm review of the ...

An 84-year-old woman sits outside her room, where she lives alone, at a temporary housing complex for evacuees from the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which followed the March 2011 ...

Over two days, May 18-19, the UN General Assembly will conclude the mid-term review (MTR) of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) at a high-level meeting in New York. Member ...

After long negotiations, delegations representing 187 countries at the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) agreed on Wednesday evening to launch the Sendai ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Disaster risk reduction can alleviate societal tensions and help mitigate the impact of ...

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Swenja Surminski, reflects on the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan (14-18 March). More than 5,000 government ...

2019 OCT 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Science Daily-- Investigators discuss new findings in Science - Earth Science. According to news reporting from Victoria, Canada, ...

SENDAI—An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) has just concluded in Sendai, Japan. Swenja Surminski reports on the final agreement. Just before midnight on Wednesday 18 th ...