UNOCHA [to 21 June 2014]
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Press Releases
21 Jun 2014
World: World Humanitarian Summit Consultation in Africa helps shape Future of Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Côte d’Ivoire, World
(Abidjan, 20 June 2014): Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, today wrapped up a two-day regional consultation on the future of humanitarian aid, held in Abidjan, saying that West and Central Africa’s experiences will be crucial in the global effort at reforming humanitarian aid…

20 Jun 2014
World: OCHA: ‘Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow’, NEW interactive website
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: World
Today OCHA launched an online interactive advocacy campaign on its new policy report, Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow: Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises, with the aim of encouraging a paradigm shift towards a more preventative and anticipatory approach to humanitarian crises. The campaign is available at: http://www.unocha.org/saving-lives
in English and French – http://www.unocha.org/saving-lives/fr.html

20 Jun 2014
Yemen: Humanitarian Coordinator calls for full humanitarian access in Amran Governorate
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen
Country: Yemen
New York, 20 June 2014 – The Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Mr. Johannes Van Der Klaauw, has called on parties to the conflict in Amran Governorate to ensure that aid organisations have full access to all civilians in need of assistance wherever they are in the governorate. He also stressed that roads must be open to movement of humanitarian assistance…
and that…

20 Jun 2014
Iraq: Statement on the humanitarian situation in Iraq
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq
Country: Iraq
Jacqueline Badcock, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq
20 June 2014 I am deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation for hundreds of thousands of women, children and men in Iraq who have been forced from their homes by the recent upsurge in violent conflict. The United Nations estimate that half a million people have fled Mosul and…

20 Jun 2014
World: “A New Direction for Regional ‘Disaster Management’ Capacity Building – Keeping Step with Changing Times” – 20th Regional Disaster Managers Meeting
Source: Secretariat of the Pacific Community, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: World Annual Meeting of the Heads of National Disaster Management Offices of Pacific Island Countries and Territories 5th – 6th June 2014, Novotel Hotel, Suva, Fiji
KEY OUTCOMES The 20th Regional Disaster Managers Meeting was convened jointly by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at the Novotel Hotel,…

19 Jun 2014
Mali: Major humanitarian needs remain in Mali – more must be done to make peace a reality, says OCHA Operations Director
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Mali
(New York, 19 June 2014): John Ging, Operations Director for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told media after a three-day visit to Mali that life- saving assistance is still urgently needed across the country and more must be done to build a lasting peace. “Humanitarian needs will continue to grow in Mali if there isn’t a full commitment by all to peace and stability,”…

19 Jun 2014
Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) Consolidated Cluster Briefs 19 June 2014