That would be a disaster for vulnerable Americans and for the fragile recovery.
To minimize the impact of disasters on vulnerable communities, UNICEF and its partners support various disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes.
Resilience building To help minimize the impact of disasters on vulnerable communities, UNICEF and our partners support various disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and peace building programmes.
To identify just how much conflict and natural disasters affect vulnerable girls, the Women's Refugee Commission began evaluating displaced girls in 2011 from Uganda, the Congo, Syria and Somalia.
Aid should be used in situations such as Haiti to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on vulnerable populations, but it has never been sufficient to lift nations out of poverty.
"UNICEF will support the Government of Haiti to respond to challenges posed by Hurricane Sandy and the impact of additional unforeseen disasters on vulnerable children including those with disabilities and girls".
In the 1999 Taiwan earthquake, the 2003 heat waves in the Czech Republic, and the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, subsequent decreased mortality in the affected areas was the result of the large number of direct deaths caused by the disasters among vulnerable populations such as the elderly or children, 5 30 31 the so-called 'harvesting effect'.
Full report [PDF] Region chapter [PDF] TACRO map [PDF] Protracted conflict in Colombia, continued instability in Haiti and disasters affecting vulnerable communities in countries throughout the region created in 2006 dire humanitarian conditions for hundreds of thousands of children and women.
Malcolm Booth of the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners said it would be a disaster for many vulnerable elderly residents.
It's a disaster for those vulnerable pupils politicians claim they aim to support.
The more Cruise tries to avert continuing disaster, the more vulnerable he appears.
