Today, the Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, and the UNRWA Director of Operations in the West Bank, Mr. Scott Anderson, joined Palestinian officials in a visit to the Palestinian...
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The UN Under-Secretary-General, Martin Griffith takes questions from the press in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, after the devastating earthquake in February 2023.
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oPt
News and Press ReleaseUN Officials visit Khan al Ahmar and call for respect for international law
Yemen
News and Press ReleaseUnder-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, Statement to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, 17 April 2018
As delivered Mr. President, Yemen remains the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Three quarters of the population, more than 22 million people, urgently require some form of humanitarian help,...
Syria
News and Press ReleaseStatement by Ramesh Rajasingham, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, on Ongoing Violence Against Health Facilities, 17 April 2018 [EN/AR]
The Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator condemned Saturday's violence, and calls on on all armed groups to the conflict to respect and protect medical and humanitarian personnel.
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseDonors Announce $528 Million in Funding to Scale Up Aid Delivery to People in Urgent Need in DRC
Already one of the world’s largest and most complex humanitarian emergencies, renewed conflict has driven up food insecurity by approximately 30 percent since 2017.
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseLes Donateurs Annoncent $528 Million de Financements pour Intensifier l'Aide Humanitaire en RDC
(Genève, le 13 avril 2018) Les donateurs internationaux ont annoncé aujourd’hui un montant de $528 millions de dollars américains pour soutenir l’acheminement d’une aide humanitaire dont des millions...
DPRK
News and Press ReleaseHumanitarian agencies working in DPR Korea urgently require $111m for life-saving aid
12 April 2018 (Pyongyang): The humanitarian community in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is urgently requesting US$111 million to assist millions of people in need of humanitarian...
Iraq + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseHigh-level joint conference on the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan, Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan and priority needs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Erbil; Iraq. 11 April 2018 – On 10 April, the Kurdistan Regional Government together with the United Nations and its partners held a high-level joint conference on the priority needs in the Kurdistan...
Syria
News and Press ReleaseStatement by Panos Moumtzis, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, on Growing Displacement [EN/AR]
I am deeply concerned about the continuing massive displacement of close to 700,000 Syrians since the beginning of the year due to ongoing hostilities in the country. The latest displacement comes on...
South Sudan
News and Press ReleaseHumanitarian Coordinator condemns killing of aid worker, calls for the release of seven others held by armed group
(Juba, 10 April 2018): The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Alain Noudehou, has strongly condemned the killing of an aid worker in Bentiu, Unity, and called for the immediate and...
Myanmar + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseUN Deputy Humanitarian Chief: “All people affected by humanitarian crises in Myanmar must get the assistance and protection they need” [EN/MY]
The UN deputy aid chief, Ursula Mueller, said that "we cannot, and must not, forget the plight of over 400,000 Muslim people still living in Rakhine State."