Press releases and statements

In a large hut that hosts the local church every Sunday, a few mats are disorderly scattered apparently to accommodate the sizeable crowd. A lot of adults are represented by their children-...

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says Afghans have responded positively to a special programme initiated by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and...

United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan Erick de Mul returned from Kabul on 18 May. De Mul spent most of this week in Afghanistan's capital holding discussions with officials of the Islamic...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 5 May, 2000): "Achieving a cease-fire for National Immunisation Days against polio in Afghanistan was not easy, but it worked,"...

For coverage of this emergency after 1 May 2000 , please see the Horn of Africa Drought complex emergency, or the relevant By Country pages.

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 28 April 2000 -- About 4% of Afghanistan's population of 20 million--or 800,000 children, women and men--are disabled, said...

Please refer to the Chernobyl section on OCHA-Online.

Today the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs presented the findings of a rapid needs assessment undertaken in 31 locations throughout Angola in close collaboration...

Geneva, New York - Seven million people in Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation are still suffering the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor which exploded fourteen years ago today,...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 21 April 2000-- Kabul authorities have given a verbal agreement to UNICEF that they will respect a cease-fire for the 1-3 May...