Press releases and statements

The United Nations is submitting the 27th bi-weekly report on the implementation of the 15 November Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA), covering the period 15 - 28 November 2006 inclusive. 1...

Kinshasa, le 8 décembre 2006 - Ce mercredi 6 décembre, au moment où les regards des Congolais étaient tournés vers Kinshasa pour la cérémonie de prestation de serment du Président Joseph Kabila, les...

Moscow, 7 December 2006. - The launch of the 2007 Inter-Agency Transitional Workplan for the North Caucasus took place in Moscow today with the participation of Russian federal and regional...

(New York: 7 December 2006): The United Nations this morning convened a high-level conference on support for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in 2007, as part of the on-going process of...

JERUSALEM, 7 December 2006 - Twelve UN agencies together with 14 NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory today launched an emergency Appeal for $453.6 million to help meet increasing...

LIVELIHOODS IN SOMALIA Somalia's people live in extremely poor and underdeveloped conditions. Livelihoods are broadly based on subsistence farming and pastoralism with limited opportunity to earn...

(Geneva, 6 December 2006) - The United Nations is seeking a total of US$ 18 million to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by floods in Somalia and in acute need of assistance. The UN...

The Global Humanitarian Reform Over the past years, international response to humanitarian emergencies has not always met the basic needs of affected populations in a timely and predictable manner...

Dakar, 5 décembre 2006 : Les Nations Unies lancent ce mardi à Dakar un appel de fonds de 309 millions de dollars pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest afin de couvrir les besoins en aide humanitaire de cette...

Kinshasa, le 5 décembre 2006 - C'est en ces termes que le vice-président de la République Démocratique du Congo, Azarias Ruberwa Manywa, a lancé aujourd'hui, 5 décembre 2006, le Plan d'Action...