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9 March 2012 - 3:42pmOn 11 March 2011, Japan experienced one of the worst natural disasters in its history. The Great East Japan Earthquake claimed nearly 16,000 lives and destroyed some 128,000 homes and buildings. More than 3,200 people are still missing. In the hours following the disaster, a joint OCHA/UN... -
28 February 2012 - 8:25pmPerveen Majeed and her family lost all their belongings during Pakistan’s devastating floods in 2010. Their home was severely damaged and Perveen’s small handicrafts business was ruined. As the family’s sole breadwinner, Perveen depended on the business to help feed her... -
27 February 2012 - 7:15pmOn the road to the small town of Recula, in Colombia’s Córdoba region, a cow forages for food in fields that have become lakes. More than 210,000 people in the region have been affected by some of the worst flooding in Colombia’s history. Across the country, more than 2 million people... -
21 February 2012 - 11:33pmThe Government of Pakistan and the UN today launched an Early Recovery Framework to help people still affected by the severe flooding that ravaged parts of Pakistan in August 2011. The framework calls for US$440 million to provide basic aid, such as food, medical supplies, shelter, water and sanitation,... -
15 February 2012 - 5:09pmHeads of UN agencies, representatives from affected governments and major donors today called for an urgent scale up of humanitarian aid to help millions of people affected by hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa. In a joint statement issued at an emergency meeting at the World Food...
