Rapports

Geneva – The International Organization for Migration today expressed its shock at the unrelenting violence that has claimed the lives of too many aid workers trying to provide protection and humanitarian relief to the one million…

A humanitarian disaster is playing out in northern Syria. The Foreign Ministers of 14 EU countries have now issued an urgent call to the parties to the conflict. Their call has been published in 14 European…

HIGHLIGHTS More than 948,000 people have been displaced in northwest Syria since 1 December 2019. Some 569,000 of them are children and over 195,000 of them are women, together comprising 81 percent of the newly displaced population. The…

Mr. President, I will begin my briefing today with the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in northwest Syria, which continues to demand this Council's attention and action. I will also speak to the importance of the cross-border operation -…

New York, NY, February 27, 2020 — The UN Security Council will meet again today to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Despite calls for a ceasefire from UN officials, heads of government, and the Syrian…

Statement by Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa AMMAN, 26 February 2020 – “Once again we are shocked at a wave of unrelenting violence that saw at least nine children and…

27 February 2020 The military escalation in northwest Syria is having catastrophic humanitarian consequences. At Thursday’s Humanitarian Task Force meeting in Geneva, Senior Humanitarian Adviser Najat Rochdi expressed her gravest alarm at the rising civilian death toll…

As reports of air strikes and shelling continue to take a heavy toll on civilians in Idleb and surrounding areas, the United Nations continues to seek ways to reach more people in need, including in front-line…

THE “BIGGEST HUMANITARIAN HORROR STORY OF THE 21ST CENTURY” CONTINUES IN IDLIB The humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria has reached horrifying new levels as the military offensive by government troops and Russian warplanes continues. Recent airstrikes have…

Statement from Beth deHamel, Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps Mercy Corps has worked in Syria during the entirety of the nine year conflict -- as well as in every major global conflict over the past three decades.…