Press releases and statements

Joint team concludes response to oil spill in Republic of Korea (Geneva/New York, 27 December 2007): A joint United Nations-European Commission Assessment Team, which has now returned from the...

(New York, 27 December 2007): Today, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) conducted a rapid assessment of the situation of people affected by the recent...

(New York, 26 December 2007): On behalf of the Government of the Dominican Republic, the United Nations earlier this week requested an additional $4.1 million to provide assistance in areas of the...

UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams' response in 2007 (New York/Geneva, 26 December 2007): In 2007, the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) teams conducted nine...

(New York, 19 December 2007): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs expressed today on behalf of the humanitarian community serious concerns regarding the security...

(Goma/New York, le 19 décembre 2007) : La communauté humanitaire au travers de OCHA voudrait présenter ses sérieuses inquiétudes sur les conditions sécuritaires pour leurs agents travaillant sur le...

Johannesburg, 18 December 2007: Faced with the worsening impact of floods and cyclones, disaster managers in eight Southern African and Indian Ocean countries have agreed to work more closely...

Dakar, 18 décembre 2007 : Les Nations Unies lancent ce mardi à Dakar un appel de fonds de 312 millions de dollars pour l'Afrique de l'ouest afin d'assurer le financement de projets d'assistance...

(Dakar/New York: 18 December 2007): The United Nations launched on Tuesday an appeal requesting over $312 million in support of humanitarian activities in West Africa in 2008, in order to ensure...

(New York: 14 December 2007): At a high-level United Nations conference convened yesterday in support of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), 69 donors pledged a total of $419,496,630,...