Reports

A healthcare lobby group is arguing for the destruction of 3.7 million polio vaccines donated to Ukraine by the UN, despite the risk (pdf) that a new outbreak of the disease could spread across the country…

This Operation Update no. 5 gives an account of the humanitarian situation and the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS)`s response, with the support of its partners, to the needs of internally displaced persons and returnees affected…

HIGHLIGHTS • Humanitarian access remains constrained in non-government controlled eastern Ukraine, with relief agencies unable to deliver supplies for thousands of vulnerable people. • Up to 1.8 million children in Ukraine are at risk of paraly- sis because…

Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is responding to the urgent needs of the Ukraine conflict's most vulnerable victims with emergency food assistance for 900 children under age three living in areas directly…

It is a nerve-wracking set up: in a hotel conference room in Kyiv, Ukraine, a doctor sits in front of a TV camera while he is grilled with questions and accusations about polio and the vaccine…

Another stage of humanitarian operation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions has been successfully finished. The 40th Russian Emergencies Ministry convoy delivered to Donetsk and Luhansk regions over 1,200 tonnes of relief goods. On their way back, all…

It is a nerve-wracking set up: In a hotel conference room in Kyiv, Ukraine, a doctor sits in front of a TV camera being grilled with questions and accusations about polio and the vaccine to fight…

By Kristina Jovanovski BUDAPEST, 29 September 2015 (IRIN) - At the end of May, we reported on the desperate situation facing civilians in eastern Ukraine, trapped near the frontline in rebel-held parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk…

A Russian Emergencies Ministry Il-76 has taken off today from Ramenskoye airport to carry 24 tonnes of medicines to the city of Rostov-on-Don. In Rostov-on-Don the medicines will be loaded to 40 trucks that will join…

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the decision of the Humanitarian Committee of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic to refuse permission for MSF to provide critical medical and humanitarian assistance in Lugansk. MSF is extremely…