Press releases and statements

(New York: 21 June 2011): The treatment of civilians in South Kordofan, including the reported human rights abuses and targeting of people along ethnic lines, is reprehensible. We know that more than 70,000 people have been displaced. Many more may have fled from their homes and their condition is...

(Doha/Cairo, 20 June 2011): The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Qatar Charity today officially confirmed, during a signing ceremony in Doha, the Stand-By Partnership...

I just briefed the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan. In the State capital city of Kadugli, it is estimated that more than 70 percent of the population have been...

Invitée du Point de presse aujourd’hui, après sa récente visite en République démocratique du Congo, Mme Catherine Bragg, Sous-Secrétaire générale aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice adjointe...

(New York: 15 June 2011): I am extremely alarmed by the violence that has engulfed South Kordofan in Sudan since 5 June and the increasing reports of civilians being targeted. Humanitarian...

Noon, 15 June 2011 Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, My mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in early June took place in some of the most troubled areas of the country, in South Kivu and...

Watch the Webcast An estimated 30 per cent of those requiring humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was not being reached, said a top United Nations humanitarian official...

(New York: 13 June 2011): I am deeply concerned about the violence over the past few months in Syria, which has reportedly killed 1,200 people and caused over 10,000 to flee the country. I call on...

(Bogota/New York, 12 June, 2011): On the final day of her five-day mission to Colombia, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator...

On 6 June, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) briefed the informal Security Council Expert Group on the Protection of Civilians on the issues pertaining to the protection...