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  • Results of Lord Ashdown's review

    The review sets out 40 key recommendations aimed at overhauling the way that the UK responds to emergencies.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to send emergency drinking water to Japan

    The UK will send bottled drinking water to Japan in response to a shortage of safe drinking water, International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell confirmed today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Earthquake in Japan

    An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck 250 miles (400km) from Tokyo on Friday 11 March. Latest updates on the UK's humanitarian response are posted here.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • London conference on Libya

    Foreign Secretary announces London conference on Libya

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to help migrants home to relieve pressure at Libya border

    Britain will support additional emergency evacuation flights for people who have fled to the Libya-Tunisia border, in light of concerns that numbers reaching the border camp look set to keep growing.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Pakistan floods six months on: tackling the threat of disease

    How DFID funded medical help is reaching flood survivors in Sindh province

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  • Haiti – one year on: safer shelter is ACTED upon

    How UK aid is helping to get people back into their homes

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  • Britain to provide emergency aid to Sudan

    The British Government today announced its further support for a rapid response fund in reaction to the fragile humanitarian situation in Sudan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The fight against cholera in Haiti

    The British Government and Oxfam are helping to tackle Haiti’s desperate lack of water and sanitation facilities – to help put a stop to the deadly disease

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  • Written Ministerial Statement on Pakistan Floods

    Written Ministerial Statement on Pakistan Floods the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK announces emergency humanitarian assistance for Somalia

    The UK announces support to provide food, water, shelter and urgent medical assistance for hundreds of thousands of Somalis affected by drought, flood and conflict.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to boost fight against cholera in Haiti

    The UK is to help supply more than a thousand trained medical staff and emergency supplies to Haiti to help fight the worsening cholera epidemic and prevent the infection from spreading across the region.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ministerial statement on Sudan

    Ministerial statement on Sudan by the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Haiti: the crisis in context

    The devastation wreaked by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti is the third time this Caribbean nation has suffered at the hands of natural disasters in a little over two years.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Britain to reinforce humanitarian support in Haiti

    Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate across Haiti. One thousand, one hundred people have already died from the disease, thousands of people are infected and the number continues to rise steeply.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Vital lifeline to British territory to be repaired

    A storm-damaged harbour on the remote British Overseas Territory of Tristan Da Cunha is to undergo emergency repairs in an effort to prevent the island from being cut off from its only access to outside supplies and help.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Emergency aid to Burma

    The UK Government will give emergency food, water, sanitation and health care to more than a hundred thousand people in Burma as the full scale of destruction caused by Cyclone Giri has become clear

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Lord Paddy Ashdown visits flood-affected Pakistan

    Lord Ashdown has been in Pakistan this week on a fact-finding mission as part of the UK’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • First steps towards a new home

    How DFID is working with Save the Children to help victims of the Pakistan floods

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  • Flooding in Benin and West Africa

    Britain's response to flooding in Benin and West Africa through emergency support to Care International.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government