ReliefWeb

Sponsored and published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996. It acts as a clearinghouse for information delivery to humanitarian agencies around the world for the purpose of delivering emergency and disaster assistance worldwide. ReliefWeb focuses primarily on current disasters, updating its web site in a timely manner “as the events unfold”, but also distributes information about “forgotten disasters” on a regular basis. It also maintains a searchable archive of emergency responses to past disasters, dating back to 1981, for research purposes.

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