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Floods left close to 9,000 homeless in Bulacan province

UN agencies step up operations to help Philippines emerge from flood disaster

6 December 2004
With flood-hit provinces in the Philippines accessible only by boat and helicopter following recent storms, United Nations relief agencies are rushing in emergency medicine, food supplies and water purification tablets.
UNESCO head Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO denounces yet another journalist’s murder in Philippines

2 December 2004
Denouncing it as “a severe blow to democracy,” the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the murder of yet another journalist in the Philippines, the 10th this year, and called on the authorities to take active measures to bring those responsible to trial.

UN aids flood victims on opposite sides of world, in Philippines and Panama

1 December 2004
United Nations emergency teams moved in to alleviate flooding on opposite sides of the world today, setting up an ad-hoc crisis management task force in the Philippines and delivering water purification materials and helping to transport health personnel in Panama.
UNESCO head Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO chief denounces journalists’ murders in Philippines

24 November 2004
In yet another bid to defend the freedom of the press, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has denounced the murder of two hard-hitting journalists in the Philippines this month as undermining the very foundations of democracy.