tsunami

UN agency seeks to boost tourism to tsunami-hit nations

2 March 2005
Seeking to avoid a new “infodemic,” a repeat of the slump in Asian tourism from the SARS health crisis two years ago, the United Nations tourism agency has called on the world’s media to take care in its coverage of destinations hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami so as not to slow the recovery of an important economic sector.
Shelter in Aceh for women and children

First US football, now Australian rugby scores for UN tsunami relief

28 February 2005
First it was the United States with football. Now it is Australia with rugby with a bit of on-site fieldwork to assist the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its emergency operations to feed the hundreds of thousands of people left destitute by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Tsunami wreckage

Two months after tsunami only some UN agencies have received full funding

25 February 2005
Two months after a devastating tsunami wrought havoc on a dozen Indian Ocean countries and sparked an unprecedented outpouring of global relief aid, the United Nations reported today that while some of its agencies have received 100 per cent of their immediate flash appeal requirements, others still remain under-funded.
Homeless migrants

Mother and child health services in Thai tsunami zone expanded by UN agency

24 February 2005
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today said it is restoring its health services, including HIV/AIDS prevention, in the coastal region of Thailand devastated by the December tsunami and also expanding its work into the communities of immigrants from Myanmar.
Tsunami wreckage

Tsunami must be preventive wake-up call, like Titanic a century ago – UN agency

23 February 2005
December’s devastating Indian Ocean tsunami is as urgent a wake-up call for the world to get its already existing emergency communications systems in working order as the sinking of the Titanic was for instituting mandatory SOS monitoring a century ago, according to the United Nations telecommunications agency.

Tsunami destruction offers chance for nature-friendly reconstruction – UN report

22 February 2005
The environmental devastation wrought by December’s Indian Ocean tsunami offers an opportunity to rebuild in a way that preserves natural resources for the benefit of the local communities who were hardest hit by the disaster, according to a new United Nations report released today.
Indian fishermen sort out nets damaged by tsunami

Asian fisheries lost more than $500 million to tsunami – UN

17 February 2005
December’s devastating Indian Ocean tsunami inflicted a loss of more than half a billion dollars on the fishing sector of the seven worst-affected countries, with over 111,000 vessels destroyed or damaged, 36,000 engines lost and 1.7 million units of fishing gear ruined, according to latest United Nations figures released today.
Food supply from WFP

US football players touch down for UN tsunami relief in Sri Lanka

16 February 2005
Continuing relief efforts to help survivors of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, National Football League (NFL) players from the United States kicked off a four-day visit to Sri Lanka today to work with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on its emergency operation to feed hungry families.

Exchanging helmets for shovels, US football stars help UN tsunami relief efforts

15 February 2005
Exchanging the manicured green of the football field for the tropical wasteland of tsunami-devastated Indonesia, two National Football League (NFL) players, quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receiver Amani Toomer of the New York Giants, are at the disaster’s ground zero supporting United Nations efforts to deliver food to survivors.

WHO tends to 40,000 pregnant women left homeless by tsunami

14 February 2005
The United Nations health agency is working with national authorities to ensure safe childbirth services in the coming weeks to an estimated 40,000 pregnant women left homeless as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami in South Asia.