Press releases and statements

La Oficina en Colombia del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (OACNUDH), el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR), el Programa Mundial de...

Le Cluster Santé évalue sa contribution au Pooled Fund 2008 Le Cluster Santé a tenu sa réunion ordinaire à Kinshasa au siège du Cluster lead (OMS), le 24 avril 2008. L'ordre du jour contenait...

(New York, 28 June 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today met with tribal elders from conflict-affected areas in...

(New York, 27 June 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today arrived in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar Province in eastern...

(New York, 26 June 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, today for a five-day visit during...

(Yangon, 25 June 2008): Preliminary findings based on 50% of the data from the Village Tract Assessment (VTA) component of Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) indicate that more immediate,...

As the people of Darfur face the annual hunger gap - the period leading up to the harvest in October - the humanitarian community in Sudan is warning that limited time remains to safeguard against an...

(Yangon, 20 June 2008): Some 250 members of the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) team return to Yangon today after completing data collection in 30 affected townships across Yangon and the...

(New York, 20 June, 2008): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has welcomed the announced Israel/Gaza Cessation of Violence. 'This development offers...

(New York, 19 June 2008): With $30 million worth of contributions, the private sector has emerged as a significant contributor to the Myanmar cyclone emergency, the United Nations Office for the...