Press releases and statements

(Geneva 16 June 2015): The UN and its humanitarian partners today released its global humanitarian overview status report which reveals record-high financial requirements to respond to increasing...

More than 2 million people have been internally displaced and over half a million refugees have fled into neighbouring Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, 70 percent of whom are children

“Kuwait’s decision to help people in need in Iraq and Yemen is testament to the increasing role Kuwait is playing in supporting humanitarian action across the world,” said Rashid Khalikov, OCHA Director Geneva.

ABIDJAN, 10 June 2015 - West African and Sahel countries are facing increasingly severe impacts of natural and man-made disasters and need to better anticipate and implement measures that spare...

Khartoum, 10 June 2015. The Government of Germany has contributed €1 million (about US $1 million) to the 2015 Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF). Germany is a first time donor to the Sudan CHF but...

On his first mission as ERC, Stephen O’Brien, the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, called for urgent and generous contributions from the international community.

(Bangui, 03 June 2015): The new Humanitarian Coordinator in CAR, Mr. Aurelien Agbénonci, has officially taken office as the country faces a persistent humanitarian crisis and increasing needs. Mr...

The CERF Advisory Group (AG), which provides the UN Secretary-General with policy guidance on the use and impact of CERF, held its first meeting on 28 and 29 May in Geneva. The meeting was hosted by...

(New York, 2 June 2015) – The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) renewed their commitment today...

Kabul, 2 June 2015: Reacting to the announcement by People in Need that nine members of their national staff have been killed on 2 June 2015, in an attack on its compound in Zari district, Balkh...