710GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women April 15, 2020 LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up to 4 to 1. And when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in 2008, some villages had twice as many deaths among women compared with men.https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/media-coverage/to-improve-disaster-risk-reduction-aid-and-tech-experts-look-to-women/LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up to 4 to 1. And when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in 2008,....Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:34:00 +0200care-271f777910d4e06236287c499ded5aa120200901003400OP-ED: The climate-Covid double-punchhttps://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/29/op-ed-the-climate-covid-double-punchAmid the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, the world’s most climate-vulnerable country Bangladesh is bearing the brunt of natural disasters, and currently is being battered by the worst flood in recent years. Heavy monsoon floods have submerged one-third of Bangladesh. The flooding severely affected over 5.Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:18:00 +0200dhakatribune-a2cdfdd86db43914f179a9ac69c0cc4820200829201800Why Aceh is a rare place of welcome for Rohingya refugeeshttps://theconversation.com/why-aceh-is-a-rare-place-of-welcome-for-rohingya-refugees-143833In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 days. As authorities deliberated about whether to allow the asylum seekers to disembark, locals from nearby fishing villages took the initiative.Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:12:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-18c9098077bbd0c04eeb9d93dd10830e202008250812002 strong earthquakes shake western Indonesia, no tsunamihttps://www.livemint.com/news/world/2-strong-earthquakes-shake-western-indonesia-no-tsunami-11597807362814.htmlUSGS says the magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at a depth of 22 kilometers under the sea. It was centered in Bengkulu province on Sumatra islandWed, 19 Aug 2020 05:40:00 +0200livemint-bff0ac1adf9775ca9a5940f6968f375820200819054000