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23 May 2013

World urged to speed up action on disaster reduction

Bekele Geleta, Secretary General of the IFRC has been interviewed at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva by Megan Rowling for Thompson Reuters.
3 May 2013

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society on the BBC

A representative of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has been interviewed by the BBC for this story on the building collapse in Dhaka which has killed hundreds of ...
6 December 2012

IFRC vice president Dr Mohammed Al-Maadheed discusses the impact of climate change at the COP18 conference in Doha

Dr Mohammed Al-Maadheed spoke at the recent COP18 conference in Doha on the subject of community response to an increase in disasters

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