IN JAKARTA, SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUNCHES APPEAL FOR $977 MILLION

 

TO AID TSUNAMI VICTIMS

 

TSUNAMI DISASTER:  UNFPA APPEALS TO DONORS FOR $28 MILLION FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK, 5 January (UNFPA) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is requesting approximately $28 million from donors to help meet urgent health, hygiene and protection needs for women and youth in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, the three countries hardest hit by last week’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

‘TIME TO SHOW THAT WHEN CALAMITY STRIKES, HUMANKIND CAN UNITE’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message for events held in solidarity with those affected by the tsunami in Asia:

Dear friends,

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY CATASTROPHIC LOSSES

IN SOUTHERN ASIA, FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE-SPAWNED TIDAL WAVES

 

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 26 December:

BAM:  REDUCING QUAKE DAMAGE POSSIBLE, SAYS UNITED NATIONS

NEW YORK, 25 December (OCHA) -- One year after the earthquake that devastated Bam, Iran, most of the surviving 155,000 inhabitants of that city are still living in tents and temporary shelters.

UNITED NATIONS RESPONDS TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN INDIAN OCEAN COUNTRIES

 

NEW YORK, 26 December (OCHA) -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has dispatched the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team of experts to help the Government of Sri Lanka in coordinating the international response to massive tidal waves that struck this island nation.

ETHIOPIA, UN, HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE FOR 2005

 

ADDIS ABABA, 23 December (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The Ethiopian Government, the United Nations and humanitarian partners today appealed for 387,482 tonnes of food valued at approximately $159 million for an estimated 2.2 million needy people, and $112 million of non-food assistance to meet emergency humanitarian needs in 2005.

MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT IN EASTERN Democratic Republic of Congo

 

NEW YORK, 19 December (OCHA) -- Fighting between armed groups and attacks against civilians have caused tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in the territory of Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, over the past few days.

Un aid agencies say Humanitarian Needs Growing in North Côte d’Ivoire

 

NEW YORK, 17 December (OCHA) -- Recent assessments undertaken by United Nations aid agencies in Côte d’Ivoire reveal that humanitarian needs are growing in the north of the country.

UN SEEKS $6.4 MILLION TO HELP PHILIPPINES IN WAKE OF STORMS

 

NEW YORK, 15 December (OCHA) -- Today, the United Nations launched a flash appeal to meet the relief and emergency rehabilitation needs of those affected by four consecutive typhoons and tropical storms that left some 1,500 people dead or missing over the past few weeks.  The appeal was prepared in close consultation with the Government of the Philippines and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.