Top Stories Search: Refugees/IDPs
Results 131 - 135 of 178
Results
-
7 December 2011 - 7:21pmRepresentatives from almost 150 countries gathered at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) headquarters in Geneva today to commemorate two fundamental conventions - the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. As one of OCHA’s key humanitarian partners... -
27 October 2011 - 12:09pmThe UN Security Council (UNSC) should be doing more to address the problems facing people displaced by conflict, a new study by Brookings and the London School of Economics has found. The UNSC referred to internal displacement in 19 per cent of its resolutions from 1999-2010, the report said. However,... -
19 October 2011 - 8:15pmThe humanitarian crisis in Côte d’Ivoire needs an urgent boost in international funding, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator said on Wednesday, during a European tour to draw more attention to the country’s fragile recovery. More than 194,000 people are internally displaced, and more... -
15 August 2011 - 9:51amThe United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos today completed a three-day trip to Kenya and Somalia to draw international attention to the world's most serious food crisis. Somalia is the worst affected... -
12 August 2011 - 9:36amDeputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Catherine Bragg, shared some worrying statistics on the situation in Somalia with the United Nations Security Council on August 10. She told members that in some areas of Somalia, under-5 mortality rates had peaked at 13 per 10,000 people per day. To put that into...
