Informes

SC/12179 7595th Meeting (AM) SECURITY COUNCIL MEETINGS COVERAGE In efforts to ensure that humanitarian assistance reached people in need throughout Syria by the most direct routes, the Security Council today unanimously adopted resolution 2258 (2015), thus renewing for a period…

In the past week, continuous ground fighting and airstrikes in northern Syria have had a serious impact on civilians and civilian infrastructure with several health facilities, markets and bakeries damaged or destroyed. On 20 December, a…

21 December 2015 – The United Nations agency responsible for defending the freedom of the media today denounced the murder of a Syrian journalist from an organization reporting on human rights abuses in the area of…

SC/12176 7592nd Meeting (PM) SECURITY COUNCIL MEETINGS COVERAGE With 2015 drawing to a close, Syria continued to sink “deeper and deeper into violence and brutality”, top United Nations officials told the Security Council today, urging parties to the conflict to…

Madam President, Distinguished members of the Security Council, Checked against delivery On behalf of the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Stephen O’Brien, I thank you for this opportunity to brief you on the latest developments in Syria. Since the adoption…

SC/12171 7588th Meeting (PM) SECURITY COUNCIL MEETINGS COVERAGE Ministers, Other Speakers Agree Terrorism Must End, Differ over Role for Assad The Security Council today endorsed a road map for a peace process in Syria, setting out an early-January timetable for United…

Carol Guensburg December 15, 2015 9:01 PM A recent escalation in airstrikes along Syria’s border with Turkey has damaged health care facilities and schools, jeopardized routes vital to delivering food and medical supplies, and heightened an already severe…

HIGHLIGHTS SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC: UNFPA delivers 298,272 services to Syrians affected by the conflict; these include safe delivery services for 5,674 women, reproductive health and gender-based violence related awareness services for 16,000 people, outreach services for 20,000…

Mercy Corps Continuing Aid Efforts Amid Increasing Danger Portland, Ore.— The ongoing violence in Syria, which has resulted in nearly five years of catastrophic conditions for the country’s citizens, is now severely restricting the delivery of humanitarian…

(Gaziantep/New York, 7 December 2015) United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang today called for greater protection and assistance for Syrians caught up in the country’s four-year conflict, following a five-day visit to Jordan…