Press releases and statements

I am appalled by the ongoing attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities in northwestern Syria, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their basic right to health. On the morning of 29...

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner will travel to Somalia on January...

Released from the Central Emergency Response Fund, the assistance will help the most vulnerable people displaced due to the conflict along the borders of the Oromia and Somali regions.

Allocution de Mme Allegra Baiocchi, Coordonnateur Résident du Système des Nations Unies et Coordonnateur Humanitaire Monsieur le Ministre de l’Administration Territoriale et de la Décentralisation,...

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner will travel to Ethiopia from...

New York, New York 24 January 2018 As delivered Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan. Since the briefing provided...

Bangui, 24 janvier 2017 Excellence Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Madame la Ministre de l’Action Humanitaire et de la Réconciliation Nationale, Mesdames et Messieurs les représentants du Corps...

Bangui, le 24 janvier 2018 – La crise humanitaire qu’a traversé la République centrafricaine l’année dernière se poursuit. En raison des violences perpétrées par les groupes armés, plus d’un...

More than one in four Central Africans is either internally displaced or a refugee. In one year, the number of IDPs has increased by more than 70% since the first quarter of 2017; 2.5 million Central Africans need aid.

(Kabul, 24 January 2017): The attack reportedly targeting the offices of a humanitarian organisation in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, killed two people and wounded a dozen, including five children, according...