(Bossangoa/Bangui, 24 septembre 2013): Plus de 170 000 personnes, la moitié d’entre eux des enfants, ont fui leurs foyers au cours des deux dernières semaines dans la préfecture d’Ouham, nord-ouest...
Press releases and statements
The UN Under-Secretary-General, Martin Griffith takes questions from the press in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, after the devastating earthquake in February 2023.
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CAR
News and Press Release170,000 personnes déplacées dans le nord-ouest par la violence armée
oPt
News and Press ReleaseUN Humanitarian Coordinator expresses concern at obstruction of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian community, following recent demolitions [EN/AR]
PRESS RELEASE Jerusalem, 20 September 2013 The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Mr. James W. Rawley expressed deep concern that Israeli forces prevented the provision of humanitarian...
World
News and Press ReleaseUN Secretary-General appoints new members to the Central Emergency Response Fund’s Advisory Group
(New York, 19 September 2013): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of six new members to the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). The...
World
News and Press ReleaseFourth Arab Conference to strengthen humanitarian partnership opens in Kuwait
(Kuwait City, 17 September 2013): Under the patronage of H.E. Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Fourth Annual Conference on...
World
News and Press ReleaseUN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos to address Arab conference on Humanitarian Partnership building in Kuwait [EN/AR]
UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos is scheduled to travel to the State of Kuwait on 17 September to address the opening of the Fourth Annual Conference on Effective Partnership & Information Sharing...
Iran
News and Press ReleaseUN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos concludes visit to Iran, highlighting valuable partnership
(Tehran/NewYork, 15 September 2013): Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, wrapped up a three-day visit to Iran today,welcoming the...
Philippines
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the Humanitarian Coordinator in the Philippines
(Manila, 13 September, 2013) - Following the recent outbreak of violence in Zamboanga City, the Humanitarian Coordinator in the Philippines, Ms. Luiza Carvalho expressed concern for the suffering of...
Syria
News and Press ReleaseUN humanitarian chief urges unrestricted humanitarian access to hundreds of thousands trapped in rural Damascus
(New York, 13 September 2013) Towns and cities are increasingly under siege as the Syria crisis worsens and fighting intensifies. People are unable to leave sealed-off Government or opposition-held...
Syria + 3 more
News and Press ReleaseEmergency Relief Coordinator allocates US$50 million from CERF for critical Syria aid operations
Today’s CERF allocation is the largest ever single contribution to a single crisis. The humanitarian response plans remain short of funding having so far received only half of the $4.4 billion required.
Yemen
News and Press ReleaseUN Emergency Relief Coordinator and World Food Programme Executive Director call for more support for Yemen [EN/AR]
More than 10 million people – almost half of Yemen's population – are either hungry or on the edge of hunger with very high rates of food insecurity. Child malnutrition rates are among the highest in the world.