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'Resilience can become hallmark of 2015,' says UN disaster risk reduction chief
Jan 23, 2015, at 02:36 pm
New York, Jan 23 (IBNS)Ten years ago today, world leaders in Hyogo, Japan agreed on a framework to better manage risk and curb the impact of disasters in the wake of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami – which claimed some 227,000 lives – and in March, they are set to meet for a United Nations conference in another Japanese city to take stock of whether the world has lived up to that promise.
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