Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Labour Organization. Food situation in Afghanistan Anthea Webb, World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Regional Director for the Asia-Pacific, said that WFP was warning that a humanitarian catastrophe awaited the people of Afghanistan that winter unless the global community made their lives a priority. WFP was usually busy prepositioning food…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Situation in Afghanistan Shabia Mantoo, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said the situation across Afghanistan remained extremely fluid. While widespread fighting had decreased since the takeover of the country by the Taliban on Sunday, the full impact of the…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. Afghanistan Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), recalled that, in his remarks to the Security Council on 16 August, the Secretary-General had appealed to Council members and the…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired today’s hybrid briefing. In attendance were spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, and the World Meteorological Organization. Situation in Afghanistan Shabia Mantoo, for the United Nations Refugees Agency (UNHCR), said the human toll of spiralling hostilities in Afghanistan…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme and the United Nations Refugee Agency. Urgent action needed for the people of Afghanistan Ravina Shamdasani, for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said that the failure to stem the rising…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing, which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization. Food Situation in Myanmar Stephen Anderson, World Food Programme Country Director in Myanmar, said that the people of Myanmar were going through the most difficult period in recent history. Poverty had predated the current turmoil, which had started with the 1 February military takeover, and was coupled with…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Situation in Lebanon Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), said that 4 August marked the first anniversary of the explosion at the Port of Beirut. Commemorations would include the observance of a minute’s…

  Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the United Nations Environment Programme. Ethiopia: deteriorating humanitarian situation in Tigray Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons and representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Organization for Migration. Economic downturn and hunger crisis in Yemen Tobias Flaemig, for the World Food Programme (WFP), said that an alarming and rapid economic decline threatened to exacerbate the hunger crisis in Yemen. Soaring…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the hybrid briefing which was attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Tigray: operational update from the World Food Programme Tomson Phiri, for the World Food Programme (WFP), stated that the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) had completed the first scheduled passenger flight to Mekelle on Thursday, transporting 30 aid workers from multiple…