Press releases and statements

(New York, 27 June 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today arrived in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar Province in eastern...

(New York, 26 June 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, today for a five-day visit during...

(Yangon, 25 June 2008): Preliminary findings based on 50% of the data from the Village Tract Assessment (VTA) component of Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) indicate that more immediate,...

As the people of Darfur face the annual hunger gap - the period leading up to the harvest in October - the humanitarian community in Sudan is warning that limited time remains to safeguard against an...

(Yangon, 20 June 2008): Some 250 members of the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) team return to Yangon today after completing data collection in 30 affected townships across Yangon and the...

(New York, 20 June, 2008): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has welcomed the announced Israel/Gaza Cessation of Violence. 'This development offers...

(New York, 19 June 2008): With $30 million worth of contributions, the private sector has emerged as a significant contributor to the Myanmar cyclone emergency, the United Nations Office for the...

(Kampala 16 June 2008): The humanitarian community in Uganda has today launched an appeal for US$ 269,600 to facilitate increased disaster preparedness in flood-prone areas of eastern Uganda. 'In...

(New York/Addis Ababa, 12 June 2008): The Ethiopian government and humanitarian agencies today revised upward the country's humanitarian requirements to more than US$ 325.2 million after drought and...

(New York: 6 June 2008): In response to a directive from The Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare of Zimbabwe instructing all private voluntary organizations and non-governmental...