Press releases and statements

(New York, 8 March 2011) The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$6 million dollars to help tens of thousands of refugees who have fled to Liberia from Côte d'Ivoire. More than...

(Kinshasa / New York / Geneva, 8 March 2011): The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, arrived today in the Democratic...

-Las experiencias en Haití, Chile y Pakistán han demostrado el gran potencial de las Redes. OCHA Colombia líder en la aplicación de la iniciativa. (Bogotá, 7 de Marzo 2011). Naciones Unidas, a través...

(Geneva/ New York, 7 March 2011): In response to the current crisis in Libya, which has led to the arrival of an estimated 203,756 people in neighbouring Tunisia, Egypt and Niger, the United Nations,...

La Secrétaire général adjointe de l'ONU aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice des secours d'urgence, Mme Valerie Amos, visitera la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) du 8 au 10 mars 2011...

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(Tunis/New York, 6 March 2011): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos travelled yesterday to the Tunisia-Libya border to review...

(Tunis/New York/Geneva, 6 March 2011): Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, today called for urgent humanitarian access to...

There is an urgent need to evacuate tens of thousands of third country nationals (TCNs) who have fled the crisis in Libya in recent days. Doing so may help to avert a major humanitarian crisis. -...

Drought Situation Drought - not insecurity - is now the main reason for new displacement in Somalia. More than 52,000 people have been displaced due to drought since 1 December 2010, many of them...