Press releases and statements

UN urgently calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Aleppo to repair the electricity and water networks, and provide humanitarian assistance to people in need.

Humanitarian operations in Gaza provide a life-line for 1.1 million Palestinians. The allegations made public late last week by the Israeli Security Agency against the head of World Vision’s Gaza...

(Abuja: 5 August 2016): The acting Humanitarian Coordinator Mr. Munir Safieldin completed a mission this week to evaluate the humanitarian situation in the north-east of the country following the...

(Juba, 3 August 2016): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, concluded his three-day mission to South Sudan today, calling...

UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF STEPHEN O’BRIEN TO VISIT SOUTH SUDAN WHO: Stephen O’Brien, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Mission to South Sudan...

The situation for people trapped in eastern Aleppo remains of the gravest concern. As I told the UN Security Council on Monday, we demand safe, regular and sustained access to the quarter of a...

The means to support the humanitarian response in northeast Nigeria, and throughout the Lake Chad Basin, does not match the staggering scale of need: Humanitarian Response Plans are under-funded.

Ibb, 26 July 2016: I am extremely concerned by reports of rising tensions in Taizz Governorate and in particular the reinforcement of the closure on Taizz city as well as the escalation of...

This must include a restoration and consolidation of the cessation of hostilities; all necessary action to ensure safe, sustained, unhindered and unconditional access; and an immediate end to the sieges.

The scale of the drought is stretching national coping capacities. Hard-won development gains and even minimum coping mechanisms hang in the balance.