Sanctions have the most impact on vulnerable groups and delivery of humanitarian aid
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCM)s: Sanctions have the most impact on vulnerable groups and delivery of humanitarian aid
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September ‘deadliest month’ of 2017 for Syrians, UN relief official reports
Hospitals, ambulances, schools and displaced people escaping violence are being routinely targeted by airstrikes in Syria, resulting in high numbers of deaths and injuries, and making September the...
Recovery in Iraq's war-battered Mosul is a 'tale of two cities,' UN country coordinator says
Even as schools and markets begin to re-open in war-torn eastern Mosul, whole neighbourhoods of the western part of the Iraqi city have been destroyed and nearly a quarter of a million people have...
Yemen: Senior UN relief official voices concern at reports of airstrikes on civilians
Expressing a deep concern about reports of airstrikes on civilians in Yemen's Sa'ada Governorate, a senior United Nations relief official has urged all parties to the conflict and those who...
Amid hunger strike, UN expert urges Israel to comply with international law on detention
With some 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails on hunger strike for a second month, an independent United Nations expert vising the region called on Israel to comply with international law and...
In Lebanon and Syria, UN emergency food chief appeals for humanitarian access
The head of the United Nations emergency food relief agency today appealed for “regular, unimpeded and sustained” humanitarian access during meetings with senior government officials and partners...
UN condemns attack on evacuees in Syria; underscores need to ensure safety of those trying to evacuate
Condemning attack in Rasheedin on 15 April, western Aleppo, Syria, on some 5,000 evacuees traveling from the besieged towns of Foah and Kefraya to Government-controlled areas, the United Nations...
‘We must be resourced to respond, protect and deliver’ for people of Syria, UN aid chief
As a major international conference on Syria gets underway in Brussels, United Nations agencies have warned that a sluggish financial support by Member States would put vital assistance for...
Incremental progress but ‘we’re not yet there,’ UN mediator on Syria reports
The latest round of the United Nations-facilitated intra-Syrian talks concluded in Geneva where UN envoy Staffan de Mistura told journalists the discussions had been serious and the parties...
In Iraq, UN chief Guterres urges more support for those who have 'suffered enormously'
Highlighting the lack of resources for United Nations programmes assisting those displaced by the fighting in Iraq's Mosul Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to do...
Security Council and region must ‘speak with one voice,’ end suffering in South Sudan – UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed the need for the leadership of South Sudan to achieve an immediate cessation of hostilities, restore the peace process and ensure...
UN aid 'pushed to limits' as 320,000 more civilians may flee west Mosul
Humanitarian agencies are bracing for the possibility that in coming weeks about 300,000 to 320,000 civilians may flee the western districts of Iraqi's Mosul city where Government forces are...
In Europe, UN envoy urges political and financial support for Yemenis
The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen called on the international community to do everything in its power to stop the fighting in the country, provide humanitarian aid, and promote a...
Yemen on brink of famine, warns UN food relief agency chief, appealing for resources and access
Unless the international community provides additional resources and authorities in Yemen allow aid workers access to hungry people, families in some of the war-torn country’s most food insecure...
Humanitarian actors need safe, unhindered access to help Yemen avert famine – UN aid chief
The people of crisis-torn Yemen urgently need humanitarian assistance and protection, especially in the north of the country where there is a threat of famine, the United Nations Emergency Relief...
'Time running out' for 1.4 million children in 'man-made' crises in Africa, Yemen – UNICEF
Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine threatens in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, warned the United Nations...
Aid obstacles are ‘matter of life and death’ for besieged Syrians, says senior UN adviser
Assurances have been given to humanitarians by the Syrian Government that obstacles to aid deliveries will be removed across the war-torn country, a senior United Nations adviser said.
Iraq: UN health agency delivers medical aid to newly retaken areas of Mosul
The United Nations health agency has delivered medical supplies to parts of eastern Mosul, the Iraqi city liberated from the Islamic State (ISIL), where clinics are receiving an influx of people in...
Yemen: As food crisis worsens, UN agencies call for urgent assistance to avert catastrophe [Around 200 displaced families live in an informal settlement in Dharwan, Yemen. Here, a 12-year old girl keeps watch over her younger brothers. Photo: UNHCR/Mohamm
The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million in seven months, with an estimated 17.1 million people – more than two-thirds of the entire population of 27.4 million – now...
Yemen: UN, partners seek $2.1 billion to stave off famine in 2017
The United Nations and humanitarian partners today launched an international appeal for $2.1 billion to provide life-saving assistance to 12 million people in Yemen in 2017 – the largest-ever...