Refugees International generates humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
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Cyclone Nargis swept across southern Myanmar on the evening of 2 May 2008, leaving a trail of death and destruction before tapering off the next day. Winds from the cyclone reached as high as 200 kph, the storm that hit Myanmar two months ago – is still visible. But meanwhile WFP has reached over 684,000 beneficiaries with food rations.
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'For several decades, and to a greater extent over the last 15 years, a multidisciplinary school of thought has suggested that both the causes and impact of disasters, as well as the risks associated with them, reflect the pre-existing economic, social, cultural, political and institutional structures within countries, regions and areas affected by these phenomena.'
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Progressive Reconstruction: A Methodology for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations based on for future forcible interventions in the affairs of failed, failing, or rogue and terrorist sponsoring states to stabilize and democratize these nations in accordance with stated United States' goals.
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The ProVention Consortium is a global coalition of international organisations, governments, the private sector, civil society organisations and academic institutions dedicated to increasing the safety of vulnerable communities and to reducing the impacts of disasters in developing countries. It provides a forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on disaster risk reduction and a framework for collective action.
The ProVention website contains a lot of useful resources on disaster risk reducti more...
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Aid Workers Network is a free service set up to enable aid workers to share practical advice and resources with each other.
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Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations. Supported by headquarters offices in North America and Europe, the agency's unified global programs employ 3,500 staff worl more...
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