quake

Sálvano Briceño

UN sees San Francisco quake anniversary as clarion call to make schools safer

19 April 2006
The main United Nations body entrusted with mitigating the impact of natural disasters today used the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake to call for greater steps to protect schoolchildren such as better buildings and training, noting that at least 17,000 youngsters died in schools in last year’s Pakistani quake.
Wendy Chamberlin in Muzaffarabad

Pakistan: quake survivors want to go home, UN refugee official says

18 April 2006
As tens of thousands of people displaced by last October’s earthquake in Pakistan stream home from their temporary camps, a top official of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which is leading the relief effort, listened to the aspirations and concerns of survivors and pledged to continue supporting them.

After successful relief stage in Pakistani quake, UN warns against fall in aid

10 April 2006
While the much talked about ‘donor fatigue’ did not occur during the relief phase for last year’s devastating Pakistani earthquake, any slackening of aid during the reconstruction stage could lead to hardship for many survivors next winter, a senior United Nations relief official has warned.
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.