Pós-desastres e pós-conflitos

With $200 Million in U.S. Housing Aid, Officials Begin Relocating the Displaced

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 05, 2012 Officials said they were working on Monday to provide temporary housing for people displaced by Hurricane Sandy despite confusion and conflicting accounts of how many needed places to live. “We don’t really know yet, in truth,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a briefing, adding that the estimates ranged from 10,000 to 40,000 […]

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UN relief agency estimates 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 2nd, 2012 Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation. Initial data collected by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]

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Housing Nightmare Looms in Wake of Storm in New York

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 New York City officials said on Sunday that they faced the daunting challenge of finding homes for as many as 40,000 people who were left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm, a situation that the city’s mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, compared to New Orleans’s after Hurricane Katrina. The mayor said that […]

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Learning From Urban Transitional Settlement Response in the Philippines: Housing, Land and Property Issues

Published in Friday November 2nd, 2012

This publication documents CRS’ experience in implementing an urban transitional settlement program following Tropical Storm “Washi” in Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines. Click here to read it.

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Japan’s tsunami reconstruction money spent on unrelated projects as communities struggle

Published in Tuesday October 30th, 2012 In In the media

October 30, 2012 Japan’s government says about a quarter of its budget for reconstruction after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster has been spent on unrelated projects, including subsidies for a contact lens factory and research whaling. The audit documents released last week buttress complaints over shortcomings in the reconstruction effort. More than half […]

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Clinton hails Haitian post-quake reconstruction

Published in Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 In In the media

October 23, 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday hailed Haitian reconstruction since the massive 2010 earthquake, drawing parallels between the “American dream” and the “Haitian dream.” Clinton was speaking at the formal opening of an industrial zone meant to help boost economic development and create 37,000 jobs in the impoverished country still […]

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Poverty Worsens As Flood Renders 42 Million Nigerians Homeless

Published in Thursday October 18th, 2012 In In the media

October 17, 2012 As the world marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty today, flood which has been ravaging many states of the country since August has worsened the incidence of poverty in Nigeria, the world’s largest black nation. Currently, the flood, which has affected five of the six geo-political zones of the country, […]

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Forced migration in the 21st century: urbanised and unending

Published in Wednesday October 17th, 2012 In In the media

October 16, 2012 More than 70 million people have been uprooted across the world, and an increasing number will never go home More than 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes because of conflict, political upheaval and disasters, as well as by climate change and development projects, and are now living as […]

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600,000 Persons Displaced in Kogi State, in Nigeria

Published in Wednesday October 10th, 2012 In In the media

October 9, 2012 Over 600, 000 people were displaced by the flood disaster, which ravaged nine local government areas of the Kogi State. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Yabaji Bologi, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Lokoja, said according to the latest report released by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) about 344 communities […]

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53,000 Displaced and 11 Communities Submerged in Delta, Nigeria

Published in Tuesday October 9th, 2012 In In the media

October 08, 2012 No fewer than 53,000 residents of 11 communities in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State, have been rendered homeless following the flooding of their homes as a result of the overflow of the River Niger. Their farmlands were also submerged. Ivrogbor, Umeh, Uzere, Ehwen, Edherie and Igbide, in Isoko South Local […]