Full Coverage: Emergency relief

29.01.2008 Hundreds of hospitals and heath facilities get destroyed every year by disasters. The UN has recently launched a global campaign to ensure that the needy are not left without vital care in the midst of an emergency.

25.01.2008 Food crisis in Afghanistan is deepening by the day. Afghan government has expressed its inability to tackle the food insecurity on its own and has appealed together with the UN for US $ 80 million assistance to avert this humanitarian tragedy.

11.01.2008 Taking a critical look at the 2004 Tsunami and its lessons, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book by TVE Asia Pacific explores how the public and citizen media and disaster managers can work in cohesion to help communities be better prepared for natural calamities.

10.01.2008 While the Bangladesh cyclone claimed thousands of lives and left millions homeless, there remain large parts of the population who have gone missing. Bangladesh Red Crescent is now working on a database of those missing, mostly women and children, to help link them up with their loved ones.