Press releases and statements

(New York, 11 May 2015) I note the announcement of a humanitarian pause in Yemen by the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the US Secretary of State on behalf of the coalition, to...

VII REUNIÓN REGIONAL SOBRE MECANISMOS INTERNACIONALES DE ASISTENCIA HUMANITARIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE (MIAH) Ciudad de Guatemala, 5 y 6 de mayo de 2015 Los países de América Latina y el...

Ongoing hostilities in Unity State have now obliged all non-governmental organisations and UN agencies to evacuate staff from Leer and other locations, says UNHC Toby Lanzer.

(Amman, 9 May 2015) The conflict in Yemen is taking a dreadful toll on civilians. Since mid-March 2015, over 1,400 people have been killed and close to 6,000 people injured, roughly half of whom have...

(Kathmandu/Bangkok, 9 May 2015) Two weeks after the devastating earthquake struck Nepal, responders continue to innovatively use traditional methods to reach the affected people in remote,...

Juba, 8 May 2015: “Since the beginning of May, military activities south of Bentiu in Unity State have forced up to 100,000 people from their homes. Civilians living in the areas of and around Guit,...

Amman, 7 May 2015 I am gravely concerned by reports coming out of Aden yesterday with accounts of scores of people, many of them civilians and including women and children, being killed and injured...

(Guatemala/Panamá, 6 de mayo 2015): La Coordinadora del Socorro en Emergencia y Sub Secretaria Adjunta de Asuntos Humanitarios, Sra. Valerie Amos, dijo hoy que América Latina y el Caribe son pioneros...

(Guatemala/Panama, 6 May 2015): Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, said today that Latin America and the Caribbean are pioneers on...

(Bangui, le 06 mai 2015): Le dé-enregistrement des déplacés du site de M’Poko a débuté le 5 mai; une nouvelle étape dans le processus de retour des déplacés et de fermeture du site tel que décidé par...