Press releases and statements

Supporters Urged to Turn Pledges into Contributions While CERF has received some US$383.4 million in commitments in 2009, only $178.1 million has been turned into useable contributions to date. In...

(Bonn, 8 June 2009): A group of key UN and non-UN aid agencies attending climate change talks in Bonn this week are calling for the humanitarian impacts of climate change to be addressed in the...

Con el inicio de la temporada de huracanes, es necesario que la mayoría de los países en el Caribe y Centroamérica ubicados en el cinturón de huracanes, esten muy bien preparados para enfrentarlos...

(New York, 3 June 2009): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) John Holmes today participated in a meeting of the Humanitarian...

(New York, 1 June 2009): Humanitarian agencies in Zimbabwe today issued a revised appeal requesting $718 million, an increase of $168 million from the original appeal launched in November 2008, to...

New York, 26 May 2009: The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes was saddened to learn of the loss of life and damage to property in Bangladesh and India caused by Cyclone Aila. He...

(Nairobi/New York, 18 May 2009): The combined number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in 16 countries in Central and East Africa now exceeds 11 million, up from 10.9 million in...

I. CONSOLIDATED APPEALS PROCESS IN 2009 First Quarter CAP Funding Updates In November 2008, Consolidated Appeals were launched to facilitate emergency response to crises in 31 countries world-wide...

(New York, 12 May 2009): Hundreds of thousands of people in northwestern Pakistan will benefit from emergency programmes supported by allocations totaling more than $8 million from the United Nations...

CERF Advisory Group concludes deliberations in New York The CERF Advisory Group met in New York on 28 and 29 April 2009. Ms. Yoka Brandt of the Netherlands was elected as chair and Mr. Moazzam Malik...