Press releases and statements

Geneva: 26 October 2007: The importance of partnerships and information sharing between UN and non-UN actors, governments and affected populations to ensure better humanitarian operations has been...

John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed journalists this afternoon in Geneva on the humanitarian situation in Occupied Palestinian...

Conakry/New York, 25 Octobre 2007 : Les Nations Unies ont alloué une somme de 1. 051. 955 dollars en aide à la Guinée afin de subvenir à des besoins humanitaires dans des secteurs qui restent...

(New York: 25 October 2007): United Nations agencies in Nicaragua are working in cooperation with the Government of Nicaragua to provide assistance following the flooding that has hit the Central...

(New York, 26 October 2007): Today, the United Nations and partner organizations issued a flash appeal for $5.9 million to assist 93,000 people in Burkina Faso, a West African country with 13 million...

New York, 23 October 2007: In response to flooding in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in August and September, UN agencies are undertaking various assistance activities in...

(Addis Ababa - 18 October, 2007): The United Nations has agreed with the Government of Ethiopia on several implementation modalities to ensure that much needed emergency relief food, medicines and...

UN Senior Humanitarian Official calls for his release and guarantees from authorities Nairobi, 18 October 2007: The United Nations strongly condemns the continued and unexplained detention of a World...

(Bamako, 17 October, 2007): In Bamako, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today handed over 32 metric tonnes of supplies valued at $370,671.55 to the Director General of...

By John Holmes DESPITE MANY WARNINGS, nothing quite prepared me for what I heard last month from survivors of a sexual violence so brutal it staggers the imagination and mocked my notions of human...