They also suffered the consequences of being vulnerable to natural catastrophes.

Those countries have been further shaken by natural catastrophes, bad terms of trade, bloodletting and conflict.

42. The General Assembly had recognized on several occasions that developing countries were vulnerable to natural catastrophes.

Ensure safe motherhood and safe birthing for women living in conflict areas or in areas of natural catastrophes.

The resources of a single country are often not sufficient to cope with the humanitarian consequences of natural catastrophes.

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This year two natural catastrophes the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina in the United States of America have clearly demonstrated just how vulnerable our societies are to natural disasters.

RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has been making international headlines of late, but not for traditional stories about urban violence, natural catastrophes, political corruption, or deforestation in the Amazon.

Your TV appearances have been... Well, catastrophes.

Concerned that Malawi continues to face natural catastrophes such as drought, floods and heavy rains, causing serious crop failure, loss of life and extensive damage to property and infrastructure,

Whether we are speeding towards challenges that will take the form of natural or man made catastrophes, we can be assured that their effects will no longer be contained within national borders.

We therefore urge the General Assembly to support debt relief for middle income countries whose economies have been devastated by natural catastrophes such as the tsunami and countries with high levels of poverty and debt.

There are many lessons to be drawn from those many catastrophes.

Similar initiatives should be taken in the future when unprecedented global catastrophes occur.

Even America s Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for providing relief after natural disasters and man made catastrophes, was in the hands of inept political cronies rather than professionals. When hurricane Katrina struck America s Gulf Coast, that incompetence proved fatal.

Catastrophes that we can avert are not as interesting as ones we could avert.

I'm specifically interested in things like autism, and cerebral palsy, these great childhood catastrophes.

How can we deny that inaction following such warnings has led to tremendous catastrophes?

Rwanda was no longer being portrayed as a factory for humanitarian catastrophes and refugees.

But we haven't really evolved it to deal with the health catastrophes of America, OK?

The accident showed how vulnerable States are when faced with global technological catastrophes in peacetime.

We welcome the emphasis in the Secretary General apos s report on the United Nations response to natural disasters and environmental emergencies. We could not have dreamed that this year would have brought so many similar catastrophes, the floods in Bangladesh and China and the hurricanes in our own region being but some examples of natural disasters for which 1998 will be remembered.

Deeply concerned by the fact that natural disasters in every corner of the globe continue to claim high numbers of casualties and cause immense material damage and that the frequency and magnitude of these catastrophes place an ever increasing material and moral burden on nations,

The proposal before us, which my country sponsors, forms a good basis for coping with such catastrophes.

This way ALDHU has worked with communities affected by diverse nature catastrophes in the most diverse scenarios.

The growing human, social and financial impact of natural catastrophes has been identified as a clear and at least in the short term irreversible trend, which can be addressed only by reinforcing preparedness and disaster mitigation measures, as clearly spelled out in the Hyogo Framework for Action.

Similarly, long term preparedness strategies supported by the United Nations and the Government of India (following previous natural catastrophes in Gujarat and Orissa) proved critical in the early hours of the tsunami and demonstrated how preparedness at both the national and local levels could save lives.

His delegation hoped that the new Peacebuilding Commission would go a long way towards pre empting humanitarian catastrophes.

It also stressed that the only long term solutions to major refugee catastrophes depended on comprehensive political responses.

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But then I suffered a series of career catastrophes, one after the other, and finally found myself in television.

Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has demonstrated that free speech even helps mitigate seemingly natural catastrophes like famines, because it reveals the ways in which a few haves exploit the many have nots. As the watchdog organization Transparency International reminds us, corruption exposed is in many cases corruption prevented.

(d) In the context of crimes, human made catastrophes and natural disasters, particularly those due to criminal negligence, provision of emergency assistance using interdisciplinary and international crisis response teams, in order to assist local authorities address the situation and the needs and rights of the victims in pursuance of the Declaration

The fact is that most of the biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden.

Coal and natural gas are natural fuels.

Other regions as well can be struck by catastrophes and tragedies similar to the one that struck South and South East Asia.

It was impossible to tackle environmental problems without addressing the consequences of large scale, man made catastrophes such as the Chernobyl disaster.

This is all natural. This is all natural.

He's a natural leader, natural in the boats.

Haiti had recently been hit by political crises and devastating natural catastrophes and had therefore been unable to implement its poverty reduction strategy. Her Government nonetheless continued to attach great importance to the commitments it had made in connection with the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001 2010.

13. According to the Constitution, the President of the Council of State may declare a state of emergency in all or part of the national territory, in the event of the threat of natural disasters, catastrophes and other circumstances which affect internal order, the security of the country or the stability of the Government.

Without coordinated internal and international peacebuilding efforts, such States can become breeding grounds for terrorism, crime, trafficking in persons and other human catastrophes.

The humanitarian consequences of such catastrophes are often so great that national Governments, acting on their own, cannot hope to cope with them.

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