‘It is Enough for Us to Survive, for Now’.
The Pakistani city of Balakot is battling to recover from the devastating earthquake that ripped through it and neighboring Kashmir in October 2005. According to government estimates, more than 70,000 people died and over 3.5 million people in the region were left homeless, and the survivors contin...
| Publicado en: | UN Chronicle Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 54 - 57 |
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December 2006/February 2007
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