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Sudan

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Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Transcript of Press Conference with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, 7 February 2024

Transcript of Press Conference with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi following Joint Launch of the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Sudan and the Regional Refugee...

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oPt

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Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, Including the Palestinian Question, 31 January 2024

As prepared for delivery Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to update the Council today. Each day that passes only deepens the misery and suffering of people in Gaza. The number of people...

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World

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Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths - Remarks at the Launch of WHO’s Health Emergency Appeal 2024, 15 January 2024

As prepared for delivery In December, I launched OCHA’s Global Humanitarian Overview for 2024, which set out our plans to meet the humanitarian needs of 181 million of the most in-need people in 72...

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Ukraine

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Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths - Remarks to the press at the launch of the 2024 Ukraine Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan & the Regional Refugee Response Plan [EN/RU/UK]

As delivered So right now it is good to be here with Filippo [Grandi] because we are launching, as you said, two response plans today to support the people of Ukraine through 2024. One is for those...

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Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Briefing to the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 12 January 2024 [EN/HE]

As prepared for delivery Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to address the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. For nearly 100...

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Ukraine

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Ms. Edem Wosornu, OCHA Director of Operations and Advocacy, on Behalf of Mr. Martin Griffiths, USG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Briefing to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine, 10 January 2024

Across Ukraine, attacks and extreme weather left millions of people in a record 1,000 villages and towns without electricity or water at the beginning of this week, as temperatures dropped below -15C.

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Syria

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Ms. Lisa Doughten, Director, Humanitarian Finance and Resource Mobilization Division, on behalf of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief - Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, 21 Dec 2023

Thank you, Mr. President. 2023 has proven to be yet another challenging year for the people of Syria. It started with devastating earthquakes that struck Türkiye, and northern and western Syria,...

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Afghanistan

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Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Head and Representative of OCHA in Geneva and Director of the Coordination Division, on behalf of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths

Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan 20 December 2023 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President, It is hard to put into words the extent of the daily struggle...

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Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Global Humanitarian Overview 2024 – Doha Launch “Putting People First: Humanitarian Diplomacy in a Challenging World” 11 December 2023

As delivered Allow me to start with an unscripted part of my remarks, and that is to say thank you, honorable Prime Minister [H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani of Qatar], to...

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Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director, Coordination Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Remarks at the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview 2024: Transforming Humanitarian Action: What it Means to Have a Women and Girls-Centred Approach

Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome. It is a great pleasure to be here in Addis Ababa, for the third and last of three consecutive events marking the release of the Global...

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