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Cuatro de cada cinco niños y niñas en América Latina y el Caribe no podrán comprender un texto simple Nuevo informe del Banco Mundial-UNICEF, en colaboración con UNESCO, hace un llamado urgente a la...

Climate change is a global crisis. In 2021, record setting climate disasters ranged from locust plagues in Kenya, to sandstorms in China, to megadrought fueled wildfires across the Western U.S...

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief delivered 374 shipments of requested medical aid to 48 U.S. states and territories and eight countries worldwide, including Ukraine. The shipments contained...

By Paul M. Sherer With the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season officially starting on June 1, Direct Relief is staging caches of emergency medical supplies along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts and...

Introduction Latin America and the Caribbean is home to diverse natural hazards, including recurrent climate shocks linked to the El Niño and La Niña phenomena, earthquakes, droughts, floods,...

Learn about hurricanes & their impact. Then take a tour around the Caribbean to see what USAID & our partners do to prepare for the worst. Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Intro Just one...

BRIDGETOWN -- Se estima que 2,8 millones de personas o casi el 40% de la población en el Caribe de habla inglesa padece inseguridad alimentaria, 1 millón más que en abril de 2020, según los...

BRIDGETOWN – An estimated 2.8 million people or nearly 40 percent of the population in the English-speaking Caribbean is food insecure, 1 million more than in April 2020, according to the results of...

WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food insecure populations. In 2021, WFP protected over 2.7 million people in 19 countries with climate risk insurance, getting closer to...

Summary Across the globe impacts from climate-related events are increasing, particularly in ocean and coastal zones. According to the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing...