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Content Type: Resource
Publisher(s): RIBA Boyd Auger
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Bangladesh

The research seeks to develop improvements to earthen architecture practices with a focus on shelter disaster risk reduction in areas that are subject to an array of water related concerns. The...

Content Type: Resource
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

During the last 30 years, Pakistan has undergone extreme transformations with
respect to population and economic conditions. As a hazard-prone country with
more people living in high-...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

Italy’s aid commitment to Pakistan is linked to the poverty ratio of the Country and is part of the
approach pursued by the international community in regional fragile context, with a focus...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

HRCP Chairperson Mrs. Asma Jabangir released an interim report on the state of
human rights in Pakistan in 1993 at a press conference in Islamabad on January 19,
1994.
She also...

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Date: Feb 2014

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, based in Brussels, Belgium, is a coalition
of 18 environmental, human and labour rights organisations first created in September 2005. That year, it was...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

ACTED and its partners have been working
throughout 2010 and 2011 to support communities in Pakistan as they have struggled to overcome
this latest disaster and the chronic issues of...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

To implement ERRA strategies effectively in these sectors, technical and management assistance support was provided both at ERRA, as well as at subsidiary levels. The project aimed to support ERRA...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Baluchistan reported that earthquake caused
376 (330 from Awaran and 46 from Kech) deaths with 594 injuries reported from Awaran and 240...

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Publisher(s): Oxfam International
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

In 2010, Pakistan was ranked 125 out of 169 countries in the United Nations (UN) Human Development Index, and falls under the category of ‘medium’ human development.1 It has a population of 176...

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This handbook is designed to prepare journalists to cover natural and man-made disasters - and their impact on people, communities and countries - in an informed and balanced way. The handbook...

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