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Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupted yesterday, spewing volcanic ash to several villages nearby, the country’s Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre (BPPTKG) reported.   “The volcano erupted at 12:12 midday local time,” said head of BPPTKG, Agus Budi Santoso, in a written statement, adding that, during the past week, the BPPTKG recorded the Merapi […]

The death toll from the landslides striking Indonesia’s western province of Riau Islands, increased to 44 yesterrday, as the search for the 11 missing people was still going on, an official said.   “Of the 44 bodies recovered, 43 of them have been identified,” said Raja Darmika, head of the operation unit of the disaster […]

JAKARTA,  The death toll from the landslides in Indonesia’s western province of Riau Islands earlier this week, rose to 33, with 21 others missing, a disaster agency official said yesterday.   The disaster-hit Natuna Regency on Monday, already evacuated 1,300 people, after the landslides destroyed houses, Syariffuddin Muhammad, secretary of Natuna disaster management and mitigation […]

Women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response, particularly with regard to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and access to gender-based violence (GBV) services. From 2020 to 2022, there was an increase in maternal mortality; an increase in unmet need for […]

As Agenda Nears Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Gains on Gender Equality Shrinking Worldwide, Women Still Suffering from Brutal Armed Conflicts, and “Gender Apartheid” From freedoms vanishing under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to sexual violence committed against the backdrop of war in Ukraine, the rights of women around the globe remain under threat more than two decades after the […]