What: Briefing to member states on the United Nations response to the India Ocean earthquake and tsunami Co-Chairs: Jan Egeland, Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mark Malloch Brown, Chair of the...
Press releases and statements
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Press releases and statements
India + 6 more
News and Press ReleaseMedia Advisory: Tsunami and earthquake response
DR Congo + 4 more
News and Press ReleaseSecurity Council Consultations: Humanitarian Challenges in Africa
Statement by Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on some of the...
Costa Rica
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations assessing damages after Costa Rican floods
(New York, 20 January 2005): Today and tomorrow, the World Health Organization/ Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO), UNDP and UNICEF are undertaking field visits to Talamanca, Costa Rica, to...
World
News and Press ReleaseUN Humanitarian Chief unveils redesigned ReliefWeb site
(Kobe, Japan, 18 January 2005): ReliefWeb, the world's leading information portal on humanitarian emergencies, today launches an improved site design that can help the aid community improve the speed...
India + 6 more
News and Press ReleaseUN Emergency Relief Coordinator urges donors to provide cash urgently for tsunami relief efforts
IHA/987 (Reissued as received.) GENEVA, 11 January (OCHA) -- Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaking today at a...
Indonesia
News and Press ReleaseIndonesia Launching a Joint Disaster Management Centre with the UN
The Indonesian Government established today a joint Disaster Management Centre (DMC) with the United Nations at the Office of the Vice-President, which is to set priorities for the management and...
Ethiopia
News and Press ReleasePastoralists and Pastoralism? Looking ahead to 2015
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) & Pastoralist Communication Initiative (PCI) 7 February 2005 - The Global Pastoralist Gathering brought together 120 pastoralists leaders...
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseRDC: La maison humanitaire à Kayna, un relais pour une réponse d'urgence
La localité de Kayna, dans la province du Nord Kivu à l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) sera dotée au cours de la première semaine de janvier d'une maison humanitaire. Initiée par le...
India + 7 more
News and Press ReleaseSouth Asia: United Nations Flash Appeal launched in Jakarta
IHA/982 (Delayed in transmission.) JAKARTA, 6 January (OCHA) - Today, the United Nations and its partners launched a Flash Appeal to respond to the urgent and immediate needs of the communities...
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseDRC: Assistance to IDPs in North Kivu launched
Humanitarian organisations have begun the delivery of much-needed assistance in the Territory of Lubero, where up to 200,000 people have been affected since fighting broke out between the FARDC and...