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Date	Location	Type	Title	Language
07 Jun 2012	United States	Provincial, Law	Flood Control and Related Matters, La. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 38 §81–86 (codified as amended Jun. 7, 2012)	English
05 Jun 2012	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia St Vincent and Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States	Regional, Resolution/declaration	OAS Declaration of Cochabamba On “Food Security with Sovereignty in the Americas”, AG/DEC. 69 (XLII-O/12), 2012	English
04 Jun 2012	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia St Vincent and Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States	Regional, Resolution/declaration	OAS Resolution on Existing Mechanisms For Disaster Prevention And Response And Humanitarian Assistance Among The Member States, AG/RES. 2750 (XLII-O/12), 2012	English
01 Jun 2012	Europe and Central Asia	Regional	EU Host Nation Support Guidelines	English
09 May 2012	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia St Vincent and Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago	Regional	OEA / CEPCIDI Matriz General de "Plan Interamericano para la Prevención, la Atención de los Desastres y la Coordinación de la Asistencia Humanitaria" (OAS / CEPCIDI General Table of the Inter-American Plan for Disaster Prevention and Response and the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, OEA/Ser.W/IV CEPCIDI/1053/12, 2012	Spanish
25 Apr 2012	- Global -	Global, Treaty	Food Assistance Convention, 2012	English
24 Apr 2012	Colombia	National, Law	Ley No. 1523 de 2012 por el Cual se Adopta la Politica Nacional de Gestion del Riesgo de Desastres y se Establece el Sistema Nacional de Gestion del Riesgo de Desastres y se Dictan Otras Disposiciones (Law 1523 of 2012 adopting the National Policy on Disaster Risk Management and Establishing the National System of Disaster Risk Management and for other purposes, 2012	Spanish
17 Apr 2012	Argentina Bahamas Barbados Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Lucia Uruguay	Regional, Resolution/declaration	Enhancing International Humanitarian Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean (EIHP), Action Plan 2012-2013.	English
02 Apr 2012	Australia	Article	Climate change, catastrophic risk, and disaster law	English
30 Mar 2012	Americas	Global, Resolution/declaration	Réunión Regional Sobre Mecanismos Internacionales de Asistencia Humanitaria, Panama Declaración (Enhancing International Humanitarian Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean (EIHP), Panama Declaration), 2012.	English
30 Mar 2012	Americas	Regional, Resolution/declaration	Declaración de Panamá (Panama Declaration), 2012	Spanish
28 Mar 2012	Philippines	National	NDRM, Memorandum, Implementing Guidelines on the Use of Incident Command System (ICS) as an On-Scene Disaster Response and Management Mechanism under the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System (PDRRMS), 2012	English
15 Mar 2012	- Global -	Global, Resolution/declaration	UN GA Resolution 66/227 International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development, 2012	English
07 Mar 2012	- Global -	Global, Resolution/declaration	UN GA Resolution 66/119 Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations, 2012	English
01 Mar 2012	- Global -	Report	The Year that Shook the Rich: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2011	English
01 Feb 2012	Australia	Article	The emerging legal issue of failure to warn	English
01 Feb 2012	India	National	National Disaster Management Guidelines, National Disaster Management Information and Communication Systems, 2012	English
25 Jan 2012	Fiji	National, Law	Fiji Natural Disaster (Western Division) Declaration and Regulations 2012	English
20 Jan 2012	United States	Provincial, Law	Act Establishing the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, La. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 3 §1–20 (codified as amended as of 2012),	English
01 Jan 2012	United States	Provincial, Law	Forests and Forestry, La. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 3 §4271–4422 (codified as amended as of 2012)	English