| Press Release IHA/737 |
UNITED NATIONS EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR LAUNCHES REPORT
ON ACTIVITIES, FUNDING NEEDS
Office Requesting $61.1 Million in Extrabudgetary Funding
| Press Release IHA/736 |
SECRETARIAT Unit on Internal Displacement ESTABLISHED
NEW YORK, 8 January (OCHA) -- Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Kenzo Oshima is pleased to announce the establishment of the Unit on Internal Displacement. The Unit, which will be headed by Kofi Asomani as Director and Special Coordinator on Internal Displacement, has been created to respond to the severe crisis of internal displacement around the world.
| Press Release IHA/735 |
SWEDISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY DONATES EQUIPMENT TO ENHANCE UN’S
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DURING HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
| Press Release AFG/175 IHA/134 |
AFG/175
| Press Release IHA/733 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL, HEADS OF UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES, TO LAUNCH APPEALS
FOR WORLDWIDE VICTIMS OF WAR AND CONFLICT
Consolidated Inter-Agency Effort to Meet Humanitarian Crises
| Press Release IHA/732 |
RELIEFWEB OFFICE IN JAPAN OPENED BY UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR
24-Hour Coverage Now Available
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 14 August (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On 16 August, Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, will open the Asian office of ReliefWeb in the Asia Disaster Reduction Center in Kobe, Japan.
| Press Release IHA/731 |
HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN 2001: A MID-YEAR REVIEW
FOR 19 COMPLEX EMERGENCIES
(Reissued as received.)
| Press Release IHA/730 |
FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT,
UN CALLS FOR MORE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS
| Press Release IHA/729 |
UNITED NATIONS SEEKS $65 MILLION IN AID TO WEST AFRICA
GENEVA, 23 March (UNIS) -- United Nations aid agencies today said they needed $65 million this year to tackle humanitarian crises in West Africa that affect some 3 million people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. They include refugees and internally displaced people, as well as impoverished communities that host the uprooted.
| Press Release IHA/728 |
UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS WARNS OF SUDAN DISASTER;
600,000 PEOPLE AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF STARVATION
