Press releases and statements

Humanitarian actors in the Sahel revised their request to $1.7 billion up from $1.6 billion to respond to the continued needs this year in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, The Gambia and Cameroon.

(Dakar, 4 juillet 2013): Le Coordonnateur Régional Humanitaire des Nations Unies pour le Sahel a lancé hier la version révisée de l’appel de fonds 2013 pour le Sahel. Les acteurs humanitaires du...

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. James W. Rawley today urged the Government of Israel to lift the long-term restrictions, including the blockade of Gaza in place since 20007. Seeking...

Almaty, 3 July 2013 – An international meeting on civil-military coordination in disasters with participation of the international humanitarian community and ministries of defense, emergencies and...

The number of refugees has increased by more than 200 per cent in six months. By the end of the year, refugees could make up 20 per cent of Lebanon’s population.

For 2013, some 103,000 people are still food insecure in the country and 29,500 children are at risk of Global Acute Malnutrition and 4,000 children of Severe Acute Malnutrition.

As of mid-June, donors had contributed some $567 million, leaving a gap of $485 million. Thirty per cent of this is needed for immediate priority projects to help people survive.

(Manila, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Geneva, 20 June 2013): A humanitarian partnership mission to the Philippines, led jointly by the Government of the Philippines, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation...