Press releases and statements

WHAT: Joint Launch of Ukraine Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan and Regional Refugee Response Plan for Ukraine for 2024 WHO: Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and...

Aden, 6 January 2024 – This statement is attributable to the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, ad interim, for Yemen, Peter Hawkins. I am shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the appalling...

I am truly horrified by the news that yet another wave of strikes on war-torn Pokrovsk District, in the Donetsk Region, has killed nearly a dozen civilians over the past hours. Five of them were...

"Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on", says the Humanitarian Chief.

(New York, 4 January 2024) Nearly nine months of war have tipped Sudan into a downward spiral that only grows more ruinous by the day. As the conflict spreads, human suffering is deepening,...

For the people of Ukraine, the new year started with loss, pain, and anguish. For the third day in row, vast aerial assaults by the Russian Federation have caused death – including several children -...

Niamey, le 29 décembre 2023 – Le Service Aérien Humanitaire des Nations Unies (UNHAS), géré par le Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM), est considéré comme crucial pour assurer l’efficacité de toutes...

I condemn, in the strongest terms, Russia's heinous wave of attacks on populated areas of Ukraine over the past few hours, which has left a path of destruction, death and human suffering. The strikes...

Yaounde, 28 December 2023– The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, approved the allocation of US$350,000 from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to...

The Top Humanitarian Official in Ukraine visited again the small rural village of Hroza in the Kharkiv region, ripped apart by a Russian strike in early October The Humanitarian Coordinator and Head...