UNDRR News

Professor Kawata, a prominent professor in the field of disaster risk reduction at Kyoto University, was awarded for his promotion of research and knowledge about past disasters. In particular he has highlighted the bitter lessons learned from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake (the Kobe Earthquake)...

The UN Sasakawa Award Jury has selected Tony Gibbs, a national of Grenada and Barbados currently working with the Pan American Health Organization (World Health Organization in the Americas) on hospital safety, as one of its two 2007 Sasakawa Award Laureates.

10 October 2007. To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction and the conclusion of its two year campaign on education, the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching today a new publication showing how children

Professor Yoshiaki Kawata from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan, and Tony Gibbs, a highly respected Caribbean engineer in building safety, have been selected as the two 2007 Sasakawa Laureates.

As hurricane Dean is heading toward Belize and the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, the ISDR secretariat recalls that early warnings systems are the most efficient systems to save lives against disasters and need to be further implemented at

As hundreds of people have lost their lives and millions have lost their livelihoods this monsoon season in Asia, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat is urging governments to speed up their implementation of the Hyogo Framework

The secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction launches an on-line game aimed at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters.

“Heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, India and the Northern England and heat waves in Greece, Italy and Romania are indications of what might happen more frequently and more severely across the globe as a consequence of the global warming”, said Sálvano Briceño

Some of the world’s greatest cities risk becoming disaster hotspots, delegates from 120 nations warned today in Geneva at the close of the world’s first Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction. Experts among more than 1,000 delegates warned that one

Over 120 governments meet today in Geneva to launch the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, a gathering that is expected to become the major international consultative forum on disaster reduction. Chaired by Mr. John Holmes, the United Nations