Press releases and statements

A little over seventeen years ago, the world witnessed one of the most terrible accidents in history. The Chernobyl disaster was a horrendous tragedy because of the direct human cost, the large...

Joint Press Release by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) On the Occasion of the Launch of the...

Statement by Mr. Kenzo Oshima, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the launch of the "Guidelines on the Use of Military and Civil...

NAIROBI, 24 June 2003 - United Nations and non-governmental agencies today were forced to temporarily scale back operations in support of humanitarian relief in Southern Sudan due to unrest in the...

DSG/SM/200 IHA/785 Following is today's statement by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the launch of the revised Humanitarian Appeal for Iraq: Thank you for joining us for the launch of...

IHA/784 Amount Needed to Make Up Shortfall In Funding for Humanitarian Aid to Iraq in 2003 At this morning's launch of the revised Inter-agency Humanitarian Appeal for Iraq, [pdf* format] Deputy...

I. HIGHLIGHTS Governments Dismissed in Chechnya and Ingushetia On 3 June, Head of the Chechen Administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, dismissed the republic's government and heads of regional...

Thank you, Deputy Secretary-General Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to illustrate in more detail the requirements we are presenting in the revised Humanitarian Appeal. The Deputy...

A recent inter-agency mission to drought-affected areas in Upper Guinea concluded that due to a constant decrease of rainfall over the last 4 years in Gaoual (minus 52%) and Koundara (minus 61%) and...

WFP reports that repatriation of Sierra Leoneans from Kissidougou came to a halt last week as a result of a funding shortfall for GTZ, which manages the logistics of the operation. Using other means,...