Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.Polio in Nigeria Tarik Jašareviæ, for the World Health Organization (WHO), said that two cases of polio had been confirmed in Nigeria this week. Michel Zaffran, Director, Polio Eradication at the WHO...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Syria: Dire Situation in Aleppo Jessy Chahine, for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, informed that today the Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura would be briefing the Security Council on the situation in Aleppo, in a closed session. There...

Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the UN TV and Radio Section, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Organization for Migration.South SudanChristophe Boulierac, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that the situation in South Sudan was catastrophic, and even more so for children. UNICEF was responding to the growing food security emergency which was affecting children in both rural and urban areas. In 2016 so far, UNICEF had treated 120,000 children under 5 for severe...

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Migration.UN Secretary-General Looking ahead, Mr. Zaccheo said that there would be a number of high-level UN officials at the opening of the Rio Olympics on 5 August, and that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would be in Rio de Janeiro on 4 August, where he would meet with the refugee...

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the International Committee of the Red Cross. UN Secretary-General United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had met on 28 July with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the readout of the meeting was available. There would be a...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.Syria Jessy Chahine, for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), informed the press that Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura had been invited to participate in a trilateral meeting called by the ISSG co-chairs to discuss the situation on the ground in Syria...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration.Syria Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), informed the press that on 21 July, an inter-agency convoy had delivered assistance to 32,000 people in the hard-to-reach town of Qalaat al-Madiq in Hama Governorate. This had been the...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Nigeria Sarah Crowe, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that an estimated quarter of a million children in Borno State, north east Nigeria, were facing severe malnourishment and risking...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Trade Organization. Syria: Civilians Trapped Rupert Colville, for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), voiced the alarm about the increasingly desperate situation of at least 200,000 civilians trapped in three towns in Syria where attacking forces had been making...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and the International Labour Organization. South Sudan: Grave Security and Humanitarian Situation Ms. Vellucci, reading a statement on behalf of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), stated that humanitarian partners were deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Juba,...