Press releases and statements

The Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund (ERF) aims to help fill critical humanitarian gaps within different sectors through readily available flexible funding for emergency response to: 1. Save lives...

Hazard Identification Tool (HIT) - Objective & Methodology The HIT lists "big and obvious" facilities and objects that may pose a risk in the aftermath of the earthquake. The list includes...

Mongolia is experiencing a "dzud", a natural disaster consisting of a summer drought, resulting in insufficient production of hay, followed by very heavy winter snow, winds and lower-than-normal...

The phase of search-and-rescue and surgical care for victims of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake has passed, and initial supplies of food, water and other essentials have reached most people in need...

Province de l'Equateur - La grande majorité de la population déplacée dans le District du Sud-Ubangi est retournée dans son milieu d'origine. Ainsi, le nombre de déplacés internes est passé d'à peu...

(New/York, 18 février 2010): Un mois à peine après le tremblement de terre d'Haïti, la communauté humanitaire lance un appel de fonds révisé d'un montant de 1 441 547 920 dollars pour venir en aide à...

(New York, 18 February 2010): Just over one month after the Haiti earthquake, the aid community has launched a revised Humanitarian Appeal for $1,441,547,920 for some three million people badly...

17 February 2010 - Today the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Government of Afghanistan officially...

[NAIROBI, 15 February 2010] The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mark Bowden, today expressed grave concern at the high number of civilian casualties and massive displacement taking place as...

The United Nations and the humanitarian community call for respect of humanitarian personnel and humanitarian aid as increasing numbers of displaced people arrive in Lashkar Gah The consequence of...