Press releases and statements

Geneva and New York: 2 November 2005: "Tens of thousands of people in Central America continue to suffer the ravages of hurricane Stan," said Yvette Stevens, Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator,...

(New York: 1 November 2005): Along with neighbouring countries along the Rift Valley in eastern Africa, Ethiopia faces a new and imminent threat from avian influenza, according to the United Nations...

(New York: 27 October): Tropical Storm Beta formed today in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season to twenty-three. Beta is...

(Geneva and New York: 27 October): More than 400 participants from 92 Member States and other members of the international humanitarian community came together in Geneva yesterday for a...

(Geneva and New York: 26 October 2005): Nearly doubling its call for urgent funding to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan, the United Nations today revised its South Asia Earthquake Flash Appeal upward to...

(Geneva and New York: 26 October): United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today addressed a ministerial-level meeting on assistance to communities affected by the South Asia earthquake. The...

(New York: 26 October 2005): Three separate attacks on humanitarian aid workers in northern Uganda in the past two days have resulted in the death of two individuals and the injury of four others...

(Islamabad and New York, 25 October 2005): Relief agencies trying to get aid to the millions of earthquake survivors in Pakistan's northern provinces are racing against time, as snowfall is expected...

(Islamabad, New York: 24 October 2005): According to latest reports by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there is a three-week window of opportunity to deliver assistance to...

Overview The powerful 8 October earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan on Saturday 8 October killed up to 50,000, injured around 75,000 and approximately 3 million people without shelter. ...