The United Nations and international nongovernmental organizations are seeking 89.5 million U.S. dollars to provide immediate humanitarian assistance and early recovery support for 2.3 million people for seven months. The main portion of this plan is for food assistance, said Haq....
especially in the areas of conflict resolution and humanitarian assistance. At the beginning of the 21st century, the UN and its programs andaffiliatedagencies struggled to address humanitarian crises and civil wars, unprecedentedrefugeeflows, the devastation caused by the spread ofAIDS, global financial...
"Rarely has humanity faced so many rapidly spiraling crises," he said, telling the Council that around the world, 55 conflicts are flaring, and widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law are generating devastating impacts on millions of civilians. Noting that the war in...
He said the government declared a national drought disaster back in February. As for the East Africa drought victims, Dujarric said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is working with the governments and UN humanitarian partners in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The spokesman s...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) on Tuesday allocated 100 million U.S. dollars to bolster relief efforts in seven critically underfunded countries across Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East, UN humanitarians said. ...
UNITED NATIONS, March 1 (Xinhua) -- A UN team visited Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and brought aid, the first time the world body has been able to deliver aid into besieged northern Gaza in over a week, said UN humanitarians. A team from the Office for the Coordination of ...
After receiving 100 submissions from 33 countries, regional finalists were selected in the first stage, representing the five UIA regions: Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Africa. These finalists moved on to Stage 2, where they...
UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A United Nations official on Tuesday urged member states to support the humanitarian response and revitalization of West Africa and the Sahel. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, special representative of the UN secretary general for West Africa and Sahel, made the remarks ...
UNITED NATIONS, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations expressed concern on Monday about the effects of the drought in Southeast Africa, leading Zimbabwe to become the third country in the region to announce a state of emergency. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA...
"The floods are worsening already high humanitarian needs, with significant destruction of infrastructure and a critical disruption of basic services," OCHA said. "The CERF allocation will support nearly 400,000 people in the areas of health, food security, shelter and protection, among others." ...