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Family begins to dismantle tent at camp in Batagram

Pakistan: more quake survivors leave winter relief camps, UN reports

7 April 2006
More than 64,000 survivors of last October's devastating earthquake in Pakistan have already left relief camps for home with the end of the harsh winter, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported today.

UN agency to provide psychosocial aid to traumatized quake victims in Iran

7 April 2006
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which is providing material relief to the victims of last week’s earthquake in Iran, today announced plans to offer psychosocial support to traumatized youngsters in the coming weeks.
Earthquake survivors in Muzaffarabad

New corporate investment scheme helps fund UN quake relief efforts in Pakistan

5 April 2006
As part of a strategic move to broaden its donor network and engage in innovative fund raising by entering the capital market, the United Nations refugee agency has teamed up with two Swiss with investment companies in a scheme that will benefit its earthquake relief operation in Pakistan.

Iran: UN rushes in urgently-need supplies and funds to earthquake victims

3 April 2006
The United Nations has dispatched urgently-needed supplies to Iran and extended several emergency cash grants for relief efforts in the wake of the series of earthquakes that affected some 100,000 people in western Lorestan province last week, killing 70 and injuring at least 1,300 others.

UN rushes experts to assess damage in quake-struck Iran

31 March 2006
The United Nations is sending an inter-agency assessment team to Iran after an overnight earthquake killed or injured hundreds and is ready provide any aid that may been needed and to mobilize international assistance, officials of the world body said today.

Former US President Bush, UN envoy, helps plan Pakistan quake recovery

24 March 2006
The United Nations Special Envoy for the South Asia Earthquake, former United States President George H. W. Bush, met with United Nations officials today on the launch of the recovery phase in areas of Pakistan devastated by the October 2005 disaster, which killed more than 73,000 people, injured nearly 70,000 and left millions homeless.
Survivors by a fire in Maidan camp, Pakistan

Pakistani quake survivors’ return home from relief camps must be voluntary – UN

10 March 2006
With Pakistan starting today to close relief camps for nearly 150,000 survivors of last October’s devastating earthquake as winter draws to an end, the United Nations refugee agency called on the authorities to ensure that all returns to home areas are voluntary and informed.
The Asian quake killed over 73,000

UN set to launch year-long reconstruction stage after Pakistani quake

8 March 2006
Five months after Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake which killed more than 73,000 people, injured nearly 70,000 and left millions homeless, the emergency aid phase is nearing its end and the United Nations is set to formally launch a year-long recovery and reconstruction stage, humanitarian officials said today.

UN agencies prepare to move from relief to reconstruction in Pakistani quake

28 February 2006
As United Nations agencies move from emergency relief to reconstruction in Pakistani regions devastated by last October’s earthquake, they are preparing an action plan to prevent an aid gap in the remaining winter period and to improve sanitation to prevent disease in the spring.
A 'Quake Jumper' in the Kaghan valley

UN agency starts long-term recovery effort for Pakistani quake survivors

24 February 2006
Launching a two-year programme to help restore the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of survivors of last October’s devastating earthquake in Pakistan, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced the formation of a team of 23 expert mountain guides to fully assess damage and needs.