Press releases and statements

Dakar, 19 août 2021 - L'urgence climatique fait des ravages dans le monde à une échelle que les personnes et les organisations humanitaires en première ligne ont du mal à gérer. Sécheresses, vagues...

ABU DHABI, August 19, 2021- Marking the World Humanitarian Day, Dubai Burj Khalifa lights up with #TheHumanRace, this year’s campaign slogan was launched by the United Nations Office for the...

Mogadishu, 19 August 2021 - On this World Humanitarian Day, I wish to draw attention to the global climate crisis ravaging our planet. Its scale has become too enormous to ignore. We must act...

In the first six months of 2021, more than 800,000 people on both sides of the “contact line” have been helped. However, without additional funding, the most vulnerable will not be supported.

(Manila, Philippines, 19 August 2021) On World Humanitarian Day, we remind the world that we are caught in a climate emergency; the pandemic did not slow down climate change. Time is already running...

(Caracas, 19 de agosto de 2021) – El Sistema de las Naciones Unidas y socios en Venezuela conmemoran este jueves 19 de agosto el Día Mundial de la Asistencia Humanitaria, fecha que se estableció para...

(Juba, 19 August 2021) Every year on World Humanitarian Day (WHD), we commemorate humanitarian workers who work tirelessly to reach millions of crisis-affected people with assistance and protection...

The people of Afghanistan need our support now more than ever. Our organizations are committed to helping and protecting them. We will stay in Afghanistan and we will deliver. At the start of 2021,...

Bogotá, 19 de agosto de 2021. Hoy, en el Día Mundial de la Asistencia Humanitaria, celebramos como todos los años la labor y dedicación de los trabajadores humanitarios, conmemorando especialmente a...

Dakar, 19 August 2021- The climate emergency is wreaking havoc across the world at a scale that people and humanitarian organizations on the front lines struggle to manage. Droughts, heatwaves,...