Full Coverage: Emergency relief

28.12.2006 Washington's offer to resettle most of the 106,000 Bhutanese refugees who have stagnated in camps in Nepal for 16 years has provoked a whirlwind of reaction that could finally sweep away official inertia toward their plight.

27.12.2006 Across the world, natural disasters are growing in number and destructiveness, and their human toll is escalating. In the past twenty years alone, more than 4 billion people have been affected by natural catastrophes – from floods, cyclones, and tsunami, to earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions.

17.12.2006 NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (OneWorld) - Nearly 60 percent of southern India's tsunami-affected citizens are living in temporary shelters two years after the disaster, a local group said this week, blaming the housing shortcomings on government apathy and poor construction efforts by both the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).