Humanitarian issues

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.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY SEEKS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

TO BREAK CYCLE OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN HORN OF AFRICA

GENEVA, 30 January (OCHA) -- The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa, Catherine Bertini, today launched an inter-agency appeal of $353 million to cover the needs of 13 million people affected by the drought in five countries in the Horn of Africa.

UN AGENCIES LAUNCH SIX-MONTH RECOVERY PROGRAMME FOR EL SALVADOR

GENEVA, 26 January (OCHA) -- The United Nations will launch an Inter-Agency Appeal for $34.9 million today, for humanitarian assistance and initial rehabilitation to address the devastation caused by the powerful earthquake in El Salvador.  The earthquake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, and hit El Salvador on 13 January.  The appeal will be launched in San Salvador at 9 a.m. local time.

Press Release
IHA/723

UNITED NATIONS CONSOLIDATED INTER-AGENCY APPEALS FOR 2001 LAUNCHED AT HEADQUARTERS

Launch Theme -– ‘Women and War’; Secretary-General, Assembly President and Executive Director of UNIFEM Speak