Humanitarian issues

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR DEMANDS PROTECTION FOR CIVILIANS, AID WORKERS IN SOMALIA

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RENEWED UNREST IN LIBERIA SLOWS HUMANITARIAN AID

AS THOUSANDS FLEE TOWARDS GUINEA

NEW YORK, 2 October 2003 –- Violence resurfaced in Monrovia yesterday after a period of relative calm. 

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME BRINGS AID TO BURUNDI CIVILIANS

DISPLACED IN CLASHES BETWEEN REBEL GROUPS

DESPITE LIBERIA’S PEACE AGREEMENT, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PERSIST

IN TROUBLED ‘POCKETS OF INSECURITY’, SAYS UN COORDINATOR

MONROVIA, 25 September (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, Ross Mountain, today expressed his concern for civilians who, despite the signing of a peace agreement, continue to be subjected to serious human rights violations in north-central Liberia.

SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR LIBERIA CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END

TO USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS, KEY ELEMENT FOR LONG-TERM PEACE

MONROVIA, 22 September (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, Ross Mountain, today backed a call from the Security Council for all parties to the conflict to immediately cease their use of child soldiers.

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LIBERIA: BETTER ACCESSIN LIBERIAREVEALS ACUTE HUMANIATARIANAINNEEDS

HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE IN GUINEA REPORTS INCREASING

NUMBERS OF REFUGEES CROSSING BORDER FROM LIBERIA

AS ZIMBABWE’S FOOD NEEDS INCREASE, UN HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES

STEP UP OPERATIONS TO ADDRESS UNDERLYING CAUSES

NEW YORK, 18 September -- United Nations humanitarian agencies in Zimbabwe are stepping up operations to address food shortages and their underlying causes.  The United Nations has also identified the need to strengthen a national immunization programme, which has been affected by the country’s economic downturn.

AGREEMENT REACHED ALLOWING HUMANITARIAN ACCESS TO DARFUR REGION OF SUDAN

NEW YORK, 17 September (OCHA) -- The Government of Sudan and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) signed an agreement today that would allow “free and unimpeded” humanitarian access to Sudan’s Darfur region, which covers some 20 per cent of that country’s territory.