Press releases and statements

(New York, 24 décembre 2009): A l'occasion de l'anniversaire du massacre des centaines de civils par la LRA en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) le jour de Noël 2008, le Secrétaire Général...

Watch the photo presentation (New York, 23 December, 2009): On the anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of civilians by the LRA in the DRC on Christmas Day 2008, United Nations Under-...

A prolonged drought period caused by El Niño is also affecting the food and nutritional security of the most vulnerable population in the southern region of Honduras, as well as the provision of...

KATHMANDU 21 December -More than 600,000 people in Nepal will receive urgently humanitarian food assistance thanks to a US$6 million (46.8 crowe) allocation from the United Nations Central Emergency...

(Geneva/New York, 18 December 2009): The United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) system, a stand-by disaster response mechanism that sends crisis-management experts to disaster...

CERF has allocated over $8 million to humanitarian agencies working to assist Congolese civilians leaving the Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Refugees are crossing the Oubangui...

New York, 15 December 2009): Several major donors have made multi-year commitments to provide significant funding to the Central Emergency Response Fund. Canada has an ongoing, five-year agreement...

COPENHAGEN, 15 December 2009 - Vulnerable communities and humanitarian agencies have spoken out today with the powerful message that 'Climate change is already affecting millions of the world's most...

(Sana'a/New York, 14 December 2009): Relief agencies today appealed for over US$177 million to meet the acute and chronic humanitarian needs of some 1.6 million vulnerable people in Yemen through the...

CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND PLEDGES: MOST SUCCESSFUL TO DATE At the 8-9 December high-level United Nations conference convened in support of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), donors...