Press releases and statements

At the request of UNRWA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has dispatched a United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team to the occupied Palestinian...

Luanda, 19 April 2002 - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Erick de Mul, announced the launching on 18 April of a rapid assessment of critical needs. During the next three weeks, joint...

Emergency Relief Coordinator, Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons sign agreement to improve UN efforts to help Internally Displaced Persons around the world (New...

Freetown,18 April 2002 - As security was gradually restored throughout Sierra Leone with the completion of the disarmament programme, and the deployment of UN peacekeepers, national armed forces and...

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator would like to congratulate the sixty-six countries that have deposited their instruments of ratification for the International Criminal Court. Today's...

LIBERIA: Follow Up Action to Sexual Abuse Allegations (OCHA/LIBERIA) - Following the UNHCR/SCF report on sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children in West Africa, the UNCT in Liberia...

The heads of the major international humanitarian agencies, both United Nations and international and non-governmental organizations1, meeting in Rome took the unprecedented step of collectively...

The Emergency Relief Coordinator is alarmed at reports of the worsening humanitarian situation in the Republic of Congo. Fighting between members of the Ninja militia and government forces that began...

NEW YORK - The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, in concert with the World Food Programme and UNICEF, today condemned the decision by the Government of Sudan to deny access of OLS flights...

Nairobi (4 April 2002) - Maxwell John Gaylard this week officially began his term as the new UNDP Somalia Resident Representative and UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, as well as UN...