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On 17th July, on the margin of ECOSOC, the IDRL side event on “Improving Legal Frameworks for the Facilitation, Coordination, and Regulation of Disaster Response”, organised in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, was well attended by governments, IOs, NGOs and academia. To read the speeches of His Excellency, Mr. T. Üğdül, Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs, Turkey and of the IFRC Director of Operations, Mrs. S. Johnson, go to: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/idrl/advoc.asp. We also thank Dr. J. Schaar (IFRC) and Prof. F. Rubio (Médecins du Monde) for chairing and speaking.