[DIPECHO Network] International Day for Disaster Reduction 2007

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Dear Disaster Risk Reduction Practitioners,

10 October 2007 is the international day for disaster reduction 2007. Here 
are some news items about the celebration of the day and key messages from 
UN Secretary General and UN/ISDR.

This international day aims at creating awareness on disaster risk 
reduction. The ISDR secretariat, together with ISDR partners, launched the 
2006-2007 world campaign under the theme of 'Disaster Risk Reduction Begins 
at School' in 2006 with two main objectives: to make school safer and to 
integrate disaster risk reduction into school curricula.

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1. 
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24259&Cr=disaster&Cr1=>Disaster 
Risk Reduction has Never Been More Pressing, Says Ban Ki-moon

With recent calamities such as floods, storms, and droughts serving as a 
reminder of the devastating effects of natural hazards, Secretary-General 
Ban Ki-moon says the need to engage fully in disaster risk reduction has 
never been more pressing.

2. <http://www.unisdr.org/>We must keep our children safe

Our most precious investments are little things, easily damaged, always in 
need of protection, but of limitless potential value. So why do we risk the 
most important capital of all: our children's lives? Tomorrow is the 
International Day for Disaster Reduction (October 10, 2007) and it seems an 
appropriate moment to ask a vital question: why do we put children's lives 
at risk in those places we should expect to be most safe: their schools?

3. 
<http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LSGZ-77TH3K?OpenDocument>International 
Day for Disaster Reduction: Too many children still threatened by natural 
hazards

To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction and the conclusion of 
its two year campaign on education, the secretariat of the International 
Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching today a new publication 
showing how children can be better educated to face disasters.

4. 
<http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/119194908359.htm>VIEWPOINT: 
Children's safety should start at school

On the International Day for Disaster Reduction, Salvano Briceno, director 
of the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) 
secretariat, challenges the world's education authorities to make schools 
safer places.

5. 
<http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={C82E8D3A-EC52-4E5A-8C88-F6AB7423EC42}&language=EN>Disaster 
Reduction Day at UN

United Nations, Oct 10 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, 
said today it is necessary to build communities and nations resistant to 
natural disasters, in a message on occasion of the international day for 
disaster reduction.

6. <http://www.dpnet.org.np/news/news/indetail.php?id=52>Celebration of 
ISDR Day in Nepal

DPNet and Nepal Geological Society in collaboration with other partners is 
organizing the workshop on ISDR Day Observation in Nepal on Wednesday 
October 10, 2007. International theme for the year 2007 is Disaster Risk 
Reduction begins at School.
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