Press releases and statements

(New York: 25 October 2007): United Nations agencies in Nicaragua are working in cooperation with the Government of Nicaragua to provide assistance following the flooding that has hit the Central...

(New York, 26 October 2007): Today, the United Nations and partner organizations issued a flash appeal for $5.9 million to assist 93,000 people in Burkina Faso, a West African country with 13 million...

New York, 23 October 2007: In response to flooding in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in August and September, UN agencies are undertaking various assistance activities in...

(Addis Ababa - 18 October, 2007): The United Nations has agreed with the Government of Ethiopia on several implementation modalities to ensure that much needed emergency relief food, medicines and...

UN Senior Humanitarian Official calls for his release and guarantees from authorities Nairobi, 18 October 2007: The United Nations strongly condemns the continued and unexplained detention of a World...

(Bamako, 17 October, 2007): In Bamako, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today handed over 32 metric tonnes of supplies valued at $370,671.55 to the Director General of...

By John Holmes DESPITE MANY WARNINGS, nothing quite prepared me for what I heard last month from survivors of a sexual violence so brutal it staggers the imagination and mocked my notions of human...

New York/Geneva, 11 October 2007: Humanitarian and information specialists from around the world will meet this month (22 - 26 October) for the Global Symposium +5 'Information for Humanitarian...

(New York, 8 October 2007): The twelve months of early recovery following the earthquake that totally devastated parts of northern Pakistan, India and Afghanistan two years ago today saw many...

Geneva - Dakar, 9 October 2007: The United Nations have allocated $4.9 million emergency humanitarian assistance to Mali ($1 million), Ghana ($2.5 million) and Togo ($1.4) as response to floods that...