July 2015

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Country: World By Jonathan Fowler YAOUNDE, 20 July 2015 – Africa this week launches a global drive to apply the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a…

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: IRIN Country: World By Jessica Alexander GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (IRIN) - International aid agencies have historically been criticized for failing to seek the views of those they are trying to help, providing them…

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Mali, Mauritania MBERA CAMP, Mauritania, July 20 (UNHCR) – Almost 400 people fleeing a renewed outbreak of fighting in northern Mali have sought refuge in Mauritania over…

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Country: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sudan, Tonga, World…

The ICRC in Somalia marked this year's Ramadan by distributing food and volumes of the Quran to detention centres in Somalia. Among the food items distributed were palm dates, meat, sugar, tea leaves and milk. from Pocket…

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization Country: World IDS and FAO want to understand how addressing the specific priorities of men and women in food and nutrition interventions could shape conflict mitigation and…

Falck will be a main sponsor for the first European congress on emergency medical services, EMS 2016 in Copenhagen For the very first time EMS Copenhagen, part of the Capital Region of Denmark, will host an international congress on…

Firefighters in Greece on Saturday succeeded in bringing two large wildfires in Athens and the Peloponnese under control, but an off-duty police officer is believed to have died in the flames. A body found in the Athens district of Kareas,…

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Nauru, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu In Thailand, although the…

Source: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Country: Jordan, Kenya, South Africa, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, United States of America, World, Zimbabwe Refugees, displaced persons, and others caught in crisis often…