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1 December 2011 - 6:25pmAlmost two years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti is showing signs of progress, but hundreds of thousands of people still need help, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Nigel Fisher has warned. Speaking to reporters in New York and Geneva ahead of the 2012 appeal launch for... -
30 November 2011 - 8:55pmUN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator (DERC) and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (ASG) Catherine Bragg yesterday concluded her four-day mission to Yemen, where she witnessed an intensifying humanitarian crisis in some parts of the country. “We are seeing chronic... -
29 November 2011 - 10:58pmAddressing the International Conference on the HOPEFOR Initiative in Doha, Qatar today, UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos highlighted the need to strengthen civil-military relations at a time when the world is facing greater humanitarian challenges and more and more governments respond to conflicts and... -
28 November 2011 - 3:49pmEmergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said today she was “extremely concerned” by Al-Shabaab’s seizure of property and equipment belonging to several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies working to alleviate suffering in southern Somalia. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki... -
23 November 2011 - 1:14pmNearly 700,000 people still urgently need humanitarian relief, protection and livelihood support in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao, the UN said today. The warning came as UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg concluded a five-day visit to the Philippines,...
