Press releases and statements

(New York/ Bangui, 31 March 2009): An upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has caused tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes since January 2009. The ongoing unrest is...

(Jerusalem): The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) for West Bank and Gaza have expressed serious concerns about the halting of medical patient...

I am delighted to be with you today, early in what the United Nations Secretary General has described as "the year of climate change", as we move towards the crucial deadline at Copenhagen at the end...

Nairobi, 17 March, 2009 - Members of the humanitarian community with support from the Government of Kenya yesterday presented the 2009 revised Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan (EHRP) for...

COLOMBO, 16 March 2009: The UN said today that it holds grave fears for the safety of one UN national staff member, and three dependent family members who were forcibly recruited over the weekend by...

(Nairobi, KENYA) 16 March 2009 - Four UN staff members were abducted early this morning by unknown armed men in Waajid, Somalia. They were on their way to the airport when their convoy was stopped by...

Lanzamiento este Jueves 19 de Marzo - Con la creación del nodo Medellín de la Red de Estudios Humanitarios del Instituto de Estudios Humanitarios (IEH) Academia, sociedad civil y organismos...

Qatar pledges $40 million to the UN for humanitarian aid Qatar announced a donation of $40 million to the United Nations for its humanitarian programmes worldwide. Thirty million dollars has been...

The Government of Sudan's order suspending 16 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will have devastating implications for the citizens of Darfur. Aid operations in North Sudan, the largest...

(Johannesburg/New York, 26 February 2009): A United Nations inter-agency humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe said on Thursday that the country's humanitarian crisis remained grave and called on both the...