Women and Youth Speak: Faces of Disaster Displacement at GP19
Attorney Leah Caminong and Ms. Nur Safriti Lasibanj held a whole room in silence. Telling their own stories of how they had been displaced in the context of disaster during…
Carrying The Inflatable Island during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019
In collaboration with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys will present an exhibition…
Disaster Displacement at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Geneva, Switzerland 13-17 May 2019 – Disaster Displacement will be a prominent topic at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19), notably addressed in a working session on disaster…
Cyclone Idai survivors struggle to rebuild devastated communities
By Charlie Yaxley, Peter Holmes à Court and Vania Turner in Buzi, Mozambique. Article first published on UNHCR’s website on 3 April 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Alissa Everett. Along a main road…
Governments meet in Fiji to address displacement caused by disasters and climate change in Pacific Island States
Suva, Fiji, 27 March 2019 – Participants from governments, the European Union (EU), UN agencies and civil society opened a two-day consultation today to address the risk of displacement associated…
UNHCR prepares to send aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in Zimbabwe
By Zinyange Auntony in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, and Catherine Wachiaya in Nairobi, Kenya, Article first published on UNHCR’s website on 25 March 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Zinyange Auntony. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…
Project launch: Enhancing protection and empowerment of migrants and communities affected by climate change and disasters in the Pacific region
Background The Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards which intersects with all domains of human security contributing to migration flows, displacement and relocation within and…
Stakeholder meeting on climate change and disaster displacement in the Pacific
Background In 2018 leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum endorsed the Boe Declaration, which recognizes climate change as the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of the…
Striving together for addressing displacement due to slow and sudden-onset disasters
Annual Thematic Meeting of the Platform on Disaster Displacement Striving together for addressing displacement due to slow and sudden-onset disasters The Chair of the PDD, the Government of Bangladesh,…
Annual Thematic Meeting of the Platform on Disaster Displacement – Striving together for addressing displacement due to slow and sudden-onset disasters
Bangladesh has assumed the Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) last year from Germany. As part of Chair’s responsibility, the Government of Bangladesh, the Platform on Disaster Displacement…
