Press releases and statements

(Rio de Janeiro; Brasília: 16 March 2007): United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Margareta Wahlström will be in Brazil on an...

Nairobi, 15 March 2006 - The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. Eric Laroche, strongly condemns the assassination of Isse Abdi Isse, Chairman of Somali human rights NGO KISIMA, yesterday in...

(New York: 14 March 2007): According to the latest report of the United Nations Country Team in Sri Lanka, the number of people who are being displaced by the current escalation in hostilities in the...

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was invited to participate in the 2nd Conference on Volunteer Work organized (11-14 March) under the auspices of HRH Prince Nief Bin Abdul...

(Johannesburg, 13 March 2007): The United Nations and its humanitarian partners yesterday launched a Flash Appeal for US$17.7 million to support the Mozambican government's response to humanitarian...

IHA/1253 (Adapté de l'anglais) NEW YORK, 9 mars (Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires, OCHA) -- Depuis son lancement officiel le 9 mars 2006, le Fonds central d'intervention pour les...

(New York: 9 March 2007): In the year since its official launch on 9 March 2006, $376.1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has been used to provide life-saving humanitarian aid...

High-level Government officials and Humanitarian Partners met and agreed today to implement the cluster approach in order to support the Government of Ethiopia's led coordination and response...

First anniversary of the CERF Since its launch one year ago, the upgraded CERF received US$ 399.4 million and is being supported by 73 partners, including Member States, one local government,...

(New York: 7 March 2007): Local search and rescue efforts were ongoing this morning in affected areas of Indonesia's Sumatra island as the first United Nations inter-agency assessment team arrived in...