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- Aqaba’s resilience protects investments
  
  The host of this week's First Arab Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the busy Jordanian Red Sea…
- 20
  
  Mar
  
  2013
- Petra joins UNISDR Cities Campaign
  
  Petra is the first of the "seven wonders of the world" to join UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign,…
- 19
  
  Mar
  
  2013
- Nablus to be first Palestinian city to join UNISDR Campaign
  
  The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed Nablus' commitment to become the…
- 28
  
  Feb
  
  2013
- Cities identify HFA2 priorities in new survey
  
  Within days of its launch, a new UNISDR survey has received over 1,000 responses spelling out what cities…
- 27
  
  Feb
  
  2013
- Disaster risk is transforming African cities
  
  Risks that have historically played out in rural areas like drought, floods and wildfires "are being transferred and…
- 15
  
  Feb
  
  2013
- Iran: Empowering women in disaster situations
  
  Bita Roohi is the first woman to be appointed a disaster manager in Iran where she is in…
- 4
  
  Feb
  
  2013
- Urban governance undermines risk reduction in the Philippines
  
  A new report acknowledges the Philippines as a global leader in enacting legislation on disaster risk reduction but…
- 30
  
  Jan
  
  2013
- US$6.7 billion floodgates to protect Venice in 2014
  
  In 2014 Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Italy’s biggest public works project which began nine years ago is scheduled to…
- 21
  
  Dec
  
  2012
- Mauritania’s trailblazer for women and resilience
  
  She was the first woman to take office as a Mayor in Mauritania and her stature as a…
- 13
  
  Dec
  
  2012
- UNISDR report finds African towns struggling with disaster management
  
  A new report published today by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, lays bare the huge…
- 5
  
  Dec
  
  2012

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