Press releases and statements

The Steering Committee for the Georgia Self Reliance Fund is pleased to announce the completion of the Fund's First Grant Competition. After a thorough and careful analysis of the 267 applications...

Afghanistan is the fastest growing crisis of internal displacement in the world today,' said Dennis McNamara today at a press conference in Geneva. Mr. McNamara, Special Co-ordinator on Internal...

Islamabad (United Nations Information Centre for Pakistan/Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan/), 26 April 2001-- Today thirty students and teachers of La Salle High School in...

IHA/730 NEW YORK, 25 April (OCHA) - This week marks 15 years since two powerful explosions in rapid succession destroyed the Unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in a remote corner of...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 24 April 2001-- "Afghanistan is the fastest growing crisis of internal displacement in the world today," said Dennis McNamara...

"Cautious optimism" was the expression the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator (DERC) chose to capture her overall impression of the current situation in Sierra Leone during a visit to the country...

LUANDA, 20 April: - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today expressed concern over the critical humanitarian situation in Camacupa Municipality, Bié Province. Large numbers of...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 20 April 2001 -- Today at the Pakistan Red Crescent Society in Islamabad, United States Ambassador to Pakistan, William B...

The United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ms Carolyn McAskie is undertaking a mission to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia from 16th to 25th April 2001. She is currently in Guinea and...

LUANDA, 18 April - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in flood-affected areas of southern Angola. Heavy rains and flooding...