Press releases and statements

As winter nears, approximately 800,000 people are in need of shelter assistance, and at least 940,000 lack essential household and other life-sustaining items.

WHO: Hesham Youssef, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and Rashid Khalikov, Director of the United Nations Office for the...

WHO: UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos WHAT: Mission to Turkey WHEN: 18-20 October 2014 WHERE: Gaziantep, Ankara UN Humanitarian Chief...

Au cours des dernières semaines, plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont été tuées, des femmes violées, et plusieurs autres personnes enlevées. Des centres de santé et des habitations ont été pillés.

(Bangui, 16 October 2014): The Senior Humanitarian Coordinator in the Central African Republic, Claire Bourgeois, is extremely concerned by the loss of lives during a new wave of attacks and violence...

(Kuwait, 14 October 2014) The Fifth Annual Conference on Effective Partnership and Information Sharing for Better Humanitarian Action was opened under the patronage of H.E. Deputy Prime Minister of...

Bangui, CAR | 13 octobre 2014 (Bangui, 13 octobre 2014): La Coordonnatrice humanitaire principale en République centrafricaine (RCA), Claire Bourgeois, est grandement choquée par l’utilisation...

(Bangui, 11 octobre 2014): La Coordonnatrice humanitaire principale en République Centrafricaine (RCA), Claire Bourgeois, condamne dans les termes les plus fermes ces nouvelles attaques depuis le 7...

I am extremely concerned about the people who remain trapped in Kobane/Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian border with Turkey. The information is not clear but reports indicate that there may be people in the...

(New York/Mogadishu, 10 October 2014) The humanitarian operation in Somalia requires urgent scale-up. We are in a race against time to save lives in areas stricken by drought and conflict. I am...