Press releases and statements

Damascus, 4 September 2022 The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) for Syria, Mr Imran Riza, announced today that the Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) is allocating US$ 30.8...

2 September 2022, ISTANBUL – The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) authorised today the movement of eight outbound vessels carrying a total of 196,285 metric tons of grain and other food products under...

A high-level mission to Upper Nile State highlights the deteriorating humanitarian situation and impact on the affected population (Juba, 1 September 2022) The Humanitarian Coordinator for South...

Humanitarian organizations carried out a joint mission and delivered urgently needed life-saving supplies to people in Mykolaiv as part of efforts to scale up support for over 550,000 people in need...

New York, 25 August 2022 I was disturbed to learn of the forcible removal of fuel tankers from the warehouse of the World Food Programme in Mekelle, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, yesterday. These...

I am truly shocked by the strikes that yesterday killed and injured civilians close to the rail station in Chaplyne, in central Ukraine. Children were killed in this attack and they died in places...

WHO: Denise Brown, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine WHAT: Mission to assess the humanitarian impact of the war in some localities in eastern and central Ukraine...

Khartoum, 22 August 2022: The United Nations and humanitarian partners have dispatched relief supplies for over 40,000 flood-affected people and thousands more will receive humanitarian assistance in...

ABU DHABI, August 19, 2022 - Marking World Humanitarian Day (WHD), Dubai Burj Khalifa lights up with #ItTakesAVillage, this year’s campaign slogan that was launched by the United Nations Office for...

Khartoum, 21 August 2022 “It Takes a village” "One hand doesn’t clap alone” There are many ways to describe how it takes not only one person, but a community of people to come together to support...