Humanitarian issues

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.

SWEDISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY DONATES EQUIPMENT TO ENHANCE UN’S

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DURING HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES

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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

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.

HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN 2001: A MID-YEAR REVIEW

FOR 19 COMPLEX EMERGENCIES

(Reissued as received.)

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT,

UN CALLS FOR MORE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS

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.

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS WARNS OF SUDAN DISASTER;

600,000 PEOPLE AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF STARVATION

UNITED NATIONS COUNTRY TEAM LAUNCHES $157.5 MILLION

HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR ERITREA

ASMARA, 22 February (OCHA) -- The United Nations Country Team today announced its humanitarian appeal for $157,540,306 to meet the needs of

1.76 million war- and drought-affected Eritreans in the year 2001.