Press releases and statements

What: Briefing to member states on the United Nations response to the India Ocean earthquake and tsunami Co-Chairs: Jan Egeland, Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mark Malloch Brown, Chair of the...

Statement by Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on some of the...

(New York, 20 January 2005): Today and tomorrow, the World Health Organization/ Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO), UNDP and UNICEF are undertaking field visits to Talamanca, Costa Rica, to...

(Kobe, Japan, 18 January 2005): ReliefWeb, the world's leading information portal on humanitarian emergencies, today launches an improved site design that can help the aid community improve the speed...

IHA/987 (Reissued as received.) GENEVA, 11 January (OCHA) -- Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaking today at a...

The Indonesian Government established today a joint Disaster Management Centre (DMC) with the United Nations at the Office of the Vice-President, which is to set priorities for the management and...

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) & Pastoralist Communication Initiative (PCI) 7 February 2005 - The Global Pastoralist Gathering brought together 120 pastoralists leaders...

La localité de Kayna, dans la province du Nord Kivu à l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) sera dotée au cours de la première semaine de janvier d'une maison humanitaire. Initiée par le...

IHA/982 (Delayed in transmission.) JAKARTA, 6 January (OCHA) - Today, the United Nations and its partners launched a Flash Appeal to respond to the urgent and immediate needs of the communities...

Humanitarian organisations have begun the delivery of much-needed assistance in the Territory of Lubero, where up to 200,000 people have been affected since fighting broke out between the FARDC and...