Press releases and statements

(Islamabad/New York, 19 November 2012): Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg made her first visit to Pakistan this week to...

UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief Catherine Bragg will visit Pakistan from 16 to 20 November 2012 to raise awareness of critical humanitarian needs and to call for more support for families in the...

(New York, 14 November 2012) Some four million people inside Syria are likely to need humanitarian aid by early 2013 if current trends continue, according to the latest Humanitarian Bulletin released...

(Manila/Bangkok/Geneva, 12 November 2012): Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Rashid Khalikov concluded his visit to the Philippines today calling on continued efforts to advance emergency preparedness. The mission travelled to Cagayan de Oro City in northeastern...

(Abuja, Nigeria, 12 November 2012): The National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria (NEMA) and the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have launched the Nigerian Humanitarian Forum on Flood response to support planning and information sharing on priority areas...

(Geneva, 12 November 2012): United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ms. Catherine Bragg, today launched the Emergency Revision of the Haiti Consolidated Appeal: Needs Arising from the...

Dakar, 7 novembre 2012 – l’équipe Sahel du Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies (OCHA), en partenariat avec Oxfam, l’Institut français du Sénégal à Dakar et...

Le Coordonnateur de l’action humanitaire, Fodé Ndiaye et l’ensemble de la communauté humanitaire au Niger expriment leur soulagement pour la libération le samedi 03 novembre 2012 des cinq...

Watch the Webcast Good afternoon, everyone. I returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the end of last week. While I was there, I was travelling with the UK’s Director-General of the Department for International Development, Mark Bowman, and also with Catherine Wiesner, who’s the...

November 2012 – Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that...