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Boy with bag of food relief in ravaged town of Infanta

With diseases looming, UN launches flash appeal for Philippines flood victims

15 December 2004
With communicable diseases including malaria and diarrhoea threatening the lives of 3.6 million victims of recent storms and landslides in the Philippines, the United Nations today launched a $6.4 million flash appeal to meet the emergency needs of the most vulnerable for the next three months.
UNESCO head Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO voices alarm at escalating violence against journalists in Philippines

6 December 2004
Condemning the second murder of a Philippines reporter in a week - and the 11th this year - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voiced alarm at the escalating violence against journalists in the southeast Asian country, calling it a direct attack on democracy.
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.