Philippines still needs “a helping hand” two months after deadly storm
Two months after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, relief operations are in “normal mode,” according to the UN Humanitarian Affairs agency (OCHA).
Two months after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, relief operations are in “normal mode,” according to the UN Humanitarian Affairs agency (OCHA).
The World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up food distribution to more than one million people in the Central African Republic.
The UN agency says it urgently needs $107 million to support its work through August 2014.
It's six years now since the UN–backed Cambodia tribunal was established to bring to trial senior leaders and those most responsible for genocide and war crimes committed during the Khmer rouge regime which lasted from 1975 to 1979.
A remote and volatile region in the south-eastern part of Chad has become a place of safety for 50,000 refugees.
Most of them have fled ethnic violence in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region and the Central African Republic.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament on Friday, 20 December.
The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) is appealing for $835 million to help Syrian children affected by the ongoing conflict in their country in next year.
The international community is being asked to disburse $166 million to provide life-saving aid to people displaced from the fighting in South Sudan, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Hello. This is Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
I want to assure you that the United Nations stands with the people of South Sudan at this difficult time.
The value of data collection and coordination in food security goes far beyond the numbers, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
In an effort to defuse the crisis in South Sudan, the Secretary-General has called for more boots on the ground to boost the UN mission’s protection capacity.