Press releases and statements

A United Nations report entitled was launched at a press briefing sponsored by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at Headquarters this afternoon. Presenting the report...

GENEVA, 5 February - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will host the Symposium on Best Practices in Humanitarian Information Exchange on 7 and 8 February at the...

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 4 February (OCHA) - Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, today launched OCHA in 2002: Activities and Extrabudgetary...

Assistance to IDP Camps in Liberia Jenemana Camp: Public Health Interventions Under UNDPs CAP project LIR/01OO3/A/07/31 for emergency support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), OXFAM (GB)...

I am deeply concerned about reports of the forced displacement of internally displaced persons at Sawmill in Liberia. On 27 January, armed men believed to be dissidents reportedly told the...

IHA/736 NEW YORK, 8 January (OCHA) -- Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Kenzo Oshima is pleased to announce the establishment of the...

IHA/735 NEW YORK, 18 December (OCHA) - On 14 December Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima, signed an agreement with Ulf Pehrsson, Vice...

AFG/175, IHA/134 NEW YORK, 14 December (OCHA) -- Less than one week after the Friendship Bridge across the Amudarya river was reopened, the United Nations and the Government of the Republic of...

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (IAC) ON THE SUDAN Meeting at Palais des Nations, Geneva 14 December 2001 Joint Statement The International Advisory Committee (IAC) on the Sudan met at the Palais...

INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1. Liberia: Prerequisites for Peace 2. Sierra Leone: Reaching the Vulnerable? 3. Guinea: The CAP Experience 4. Interview with the DSRSG/HC/RC of Sierra Leone 5. West Africa : Quo...