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On International Day, UN urges building disaster resilience by reducing 'appalling' loss of life

On International Day, UN urges building disaster resilience by reducing 'appalling' loss of life

Oct 14, 2016, at 04:12 am

New York, Oct 13 (Just Earth News): Over the past twenty years, 90 per cent of the 1.35 million people who have died in 7,056 disaster events have come from low and middle-income countries, according to a new United Nations report released on Thursday described by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a “damning indictment of inequality.”