Press releases and statements

(New York, 20 September 2011): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of 6 new members to the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)...

(Islamabad/Geneva/New York: 19 September 2011): The United Nations called for US$357 million to help the Government of Pakistan provide life-saving assistance to more than 5 million people left destitute by devastating monsoon rains and flooding in southern Pakistan. The United Nations Rapid...

Some $2.7 million was provided from the CERF for UN agencies to respond to a food security crisis in Lesotho. Heavy rains caused widespread destruction to Lesotho’s farming in late 2010 and early...

(Bangkok, 15 September 2011) – Five countries in Asia and the Pacific have donated almost 18 per cent of the total amount of emergency aid provided to date, to the crisis in the Horn of Africa. ...

13 September 2011: The CERF has allocated $10 million to provide urgent life-saving assistance in Ethiopia ... More information coming soon.

(Geneva, 12 September 2011): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) today officially confirmed, during a...

(Islamabad/Geneva/New York: 10 September 2011): Torrential monsoon rains have pounded southern Pakistan, triggering serious flooding affecting more than five million people, among them communities still recovering from last year’s extraordinary floods. The disaster has reportedly taken the lives...

Statement attributable to the Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti Port-au-Prince/09 September 2011: The humanitarian community in Haiti expresses its concern following the recent evictions of...

On 1 September, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) briefed the informal Security Council Expert Group on the Protection of Civilians on the issues pertaining to the...

Epidémies Situation du cholera • La tendance générale de l’épidémie de cholera le long du fleuve Congo est à la baisse. Au 02 septembre 2011, un total de 5 724 cas dont 334 décès a été rapporté dans...