Children and Youth Forum Sendai

17 Mar, 2015

On disaster resilience, ‘we must listen to those who know their communities’ says UNICEF Director General Anthony Lake

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Children and youth are a major part of community-level responses to disasters and must play an important role in risk reduction, United Nations officials said today in Sendai, Japan, with the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) challenging a gathering of youth representatives to demand that they be involved in processes that impact them.

13 Mar, 2015

UN Youth Envoy delivers opening remarks at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

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On 14 March 2014, the UN Youth Envoy, Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, delivers keynote remarks at the opening of the Children and Youth Forum of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, taking place in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan from 14 to