The Office had also been asked to support the management of camps for people made homeless by the disaster and its experts were working urgently with a range of partners, particularly the Government of Pakistan, to provide shelter for thousands of families.

a) Integrate a gender perspective in post disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts and ensure that women take an active and equal role in all phases of disaster management and post disaster recovery and

Disaster and Development

I am sorry for this catastrophe I am sorry for this calamity

Disaster beckoned.

Global Disaster Recovery

Then came the Nakba, the Calamity.

64 years of a catastrophe called Israel.

According to Greenspan, immediate action needed to be taken to avert this looming disaster, which would impede the Fed s ability to conduct monetary policy!

On nearby streets, houses and businesses were destroyed.

The disaster has effectively paralysed the economy.

The Bush administration s overconfidence in the validity of its objectives democratizing the Middle East much more than implementation failures, was the key factor behind the unfolding catastrophe there.

The scale of this tragedy has overwhelmed all the governments capacity.

Out of chaos is often born the dancing star.

The immediate impact of the disaster was felt by millions of people.

On this issue, the Bush administration wasted eight precious years during which we have gotten perilously close to the point at which an irreversible chain of events could occur that leads to catastrophe.

The US cannot deny this disaster.

It is the scale of the catastrophe that astonishes me.

A calamity is inevitable unless we change.

But catastrophe was avoided.

The 6 January meeting convened in Jakarta at the initiative of the Indonesian Government was also important for coordinating international relief efforts and made possible an international plan for providing required assistance and for mitigating the consequences of the tragedy.

Given the nature and scale of the disaster, solidarity on the part of the international community is an absolute necessity if those countries that have been affected are to overcome the consequences of the catastrophe.

Doing so will not be easy. But disaster does not wait.

Nein merely brings calamity closer.

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous.

Where it goes, the next crisis is inevitably doomed to follow.

Such a declaration shall be made subsequent to the natural disaster and prior to the deployment of the operation.

The magnitude of the catastrophe requires a commensurate response from the global community.

That is the least that we can do when natural disasters occur.

It has been three long, nightmarish weeks for those who survived the waves yet lost so much and so many.

Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.

In the light of the devastating consequences of the natural disaster, on the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, our country began to send humanitarian assistance to the affected countries on the very next day following the catastrophe.

Not the bankers and financiers who created the disaster.

The last few days I have heard a lot of possible causes for this disaster arsonists seem to be the main and usual suspects.

Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

Let us respond to this catastrophe with the best of our humanity and a true sense of solidarity.

Europe, however, is not obliged to choose between catastrophe and mutualization of debt.

The disaster has been described as the deadliest disasters in modern maritime history.

An area of approximately 1300 km² came under water during this calamity.

We see a growing risk of proliferation, of catastrophic terrorism.

Our thoughts and prayers are with them as they recover from the calamitous effects of the disaster.

No single island of my country was spared in the disaster.

We mourn the loss of life and the anguish of the survivors.

This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.

The disaster showed the importance of heeding the warning signs, coming together in advance of the calamity and sustaining a collective effort to end human misery and lay solid foundations for peace and development.