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UN plans for early warning system for natural disasters moves forward

29 March 2006
United Nations efforts to set up an early warning system that could save tens of thousands of lives in natural disasters moved a further step forward today with an international conference calling for more funds and stressing the vital importance of local communities in readiness training.

UN agency calls for fishing boats in tsunami-affected countries to be safer

28 March 2006
Thousands of fishing boats built to replace those destroyed by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 must meet minimum safety standards, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, as it again urged authorities to ensure such standards were adhered to and warned that inferior boatbuilding was undermining the tsunami recovery effort.

UN-backed conference discusses early warning systems for natural disasters

27 March 2006
With over 200 million people affected every year by natural hazards, and 15 months after the Indian Ocean tsunami claimed more than 200,000 lives, 1,200 participants from 140 countries today opened a United Nations-backed conference on early warning systems, widely recognized as the best way to save lives.
Former US President Bill Clinton

Former President Clinton, UN tsunami envoy, to promote early warning systems

21 March 2006
In an effort to boost the development of preventative systems for natural disasters, Former United States President Bill Clinton, in his role as United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, will address the International Early Warning Congress in Bonn, Germany next week.

Tsunami-affected countries need to do even more to protect rights of victims: UN

1 March 2006
Although countries devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami have much to be proud of in their respect of the basic rights to shelter, health services and education of victims, the United Nations envoy to the region today urged more be done to protect such rights.