Humanitarian Aid

A wide view of the Security Council as members vote on a draft resolution related to the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Venezuela: Competing US, Russia resolutions fail to pass in Security Council

28 February 2019
Americas

The second meeting of the week on the situation in Venezuela, took place in the UN Security Council on Thursday, during which competing resolutions produced by the United States and by Russia were presented. Neither text was adopted as the US draft was vetoed and the Russian draft failing to secure enough votes in favor.

Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to safety in Cox's Bazar.
© UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

Stateless Rohingya refugee children living in ‘untenable situation’, UNICEF chief

27 February 2019
Asia Pacific

With around half a million in effect, stateless Rohingya refugee children living in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camp, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief stressed on Friday that the international community must address their “untenable situation” and “invest in this generation”.

Cereal stored in Dhubab, Taiz Gobernorate, in Yemen. The World Food Programme (WFP) gained access for the first time in five months to the large Red Sea Mills grain silo in Hudaydah, on 27 February.
Giles Clarke/OCHA

Yemen: ‘A great first step’ UN declares as aid team accesses grain silo which can feed millions

27 February 2019
Middle East

The first assessment of a major UN aid storage facility in war-torn Yemen has been carried out since it was cut off by fighting last September, the Organization reported on Wednesday, hailing it as “a great first step”.

A wide view of the Security Council chamber as it meets on the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

‘Protracted crisis’ in Venezuela leads to ‘alarming escalation of tensions': UN political chief

26 February 2019

The “protracted crisis” in Venezuela has led to an “alarming escalation of tensions”, Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN’s political and peacebuilding chief, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

YEMEN: Abdulla brought his younger sister to the Health Medical Center where she received the needed medication in the targeted area supported by UNICEF
UNICEF

Not a single child spared the ‘mind-boggling violence’ of Yemen's war

25 February 2019
Middle East

Four years of “mind-boggling violence” in Yemen “has not spared a single child”, a top UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said on Monday, on the eve of a pledging conference in Geneva to help alleviate the suffering of millions across the country. 

When fighting broke out in 2015, Yemen was already considered one of the world’s poorest countries.
WFP/Reem Nada

UN and partners to hold conference seeking urgently needed funds to save millions in Yemen from ‘horrific’ plight

24 February 2019
Middle East

Preparations are being finalized at the UN for conference to be held on Tuesday in support of a $4.2 billion appeal to scale up help to millions of people in Yemen, where years of war have created the world’s worst humanitarian emergency.

The UN chief with Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Guterres meets Venezuela Foreign Minister, reiterates humanitarian principles

22 February 2019
Americas

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres met Jorge Arreaza, Foreign Minister of Venezuela on Friday, and reiterated that the UN acts in accordance with the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence, and will work with Venezuelan institutions, to assist people in need.  

The lean season in South Sudan has left many families with little food and mothers are scrambling to survive, Aweil, South Sudan, January 2018.
FAO/Stefanie Glinski

Without scaled-up humanitarian assistance ‘more and more people’ at risk in South Sudan

22 February 2019
Africa

“Alarming” food insecurity threatens nearly seven million people in South Sudan, according to a new report by three United Nations agencies appealing for greater assistance and better access to humanitarian relief.

A doctor mesures the arm of 12-year-old Yemeni Ali Mohammed Ahmed Jamal who is suffering from malnutrition at a treatment centre in a hospital in Sanaa. (November 2018)
UNICEF/UN0253355/Huwais

Moving from a promise made in Sweden towards hope for peace in Yemen

19 February 2019
Middle East

“Significant progress” is being made in implementing the deal reached in Stockholm last December between Government and Houthi leaders in Yemen, according to United Nations Special Envoy Martin Griffiths.

Fawaz, who suffers from severe acute malnutrition, and his mother in the hospital in Aden, Yemen. November 2018.
OCHA/Giles Clarke

FROM THE FIELD: Survival in Yemen against all odds

15 February 2019
Middle East

Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.