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Category: Newsletter (page 2)

Updates on Sendai Goals 1 and 2

Posted on: 24th November 2019 Last updated on: 29th October 2020 Written by: Denise Corsel Comments: 0
Update on the United Nations Office on Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Effort to Reduce Deaths: Excerpts from two UN Reports 2016 and 2017 By: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Hideyuki Shiroshita In 2015, the United Nations ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk…
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The Hidden Toll of Bihar’s Floods: An Exploration of the Chain of Events Leading to Avoidable Flood-Related Deaths

By Ashutosh Tiwari Researcher in Demography & Population Health International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. Contact: a.tiwari@avoidable-deaths.net  Date: 28-09-2026 Figure 1: Areas of Bihar liable to flood (orange) and the 15 districts affected as of 14 September 2026…
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 Every Life Matters: Preventing Avoidable Deaths from Snakebite in Bangladesh

By Joy Chakrabarty Snakebite-related deaths may not seem like common occurrences—until we hear news of a fatality or see reports showing how many people have been affected. Behind every number is a person and a family. Snakebite deserves to be…
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Unite to Turn the Tide: From Awareness to Action Against Drowning

By: Arkoneil Ghosh, Founding Editor of Junior Champion Magazine, Regional Coordinator, and IAD4AD Administraton and Md Shafkat Hossain. Affiliations- Bournemouth University and Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB). Drowning deaths are avoidable, yet more than 300,000 people die…
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Launch of ADN Taiwan Chapter at National Chi Nan University

By Master Arkoneil Ghosh and Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett The ADN Taiwan Chapter was launched on 12 and 13 March, led by Professor Jie-Ru Chen and Dr. Yi-Tzu Lin at National Chi Nan University in Puli, Nantou County, Taiwan. The launch…
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‘Vanishing Acts’: Missing women and girls as an invisible crisis in post-disaster landscapes

By Dr. Aditya Ghosh and Prof. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett Between 2020 and 2021, the Indian Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem, was struck by a double disaster: the COVID-19 lockdown and two devastating cyclones, Amphan and Yaas. While mortality from…
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Extreme Heat Deaths Must Be Avoided

By Mr. Mihir R. Bhatt March 12, the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD), challenges us to confront a painful reality: many deaths we accept as “normal” consequences of heat are neither sudden nor inevitable. Extreme heat is one…
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