Save lives, UN agencies appeal, after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean
Three UN agencies on Thursday appealed for greater access to safe and regular pathways for migration and asylum in the European Union after another deadly shipwreck claimed dozens of lives in the Mediterranean.
Ukraine: UN agencies deliver food, health and other support amid fighting
New York: UN agencies and entities have underlined their continued support to Ukraine, as Wednesday marked six months since the start of the war devastating the country.
UN agency assisting Palestinians working at ‘full capacity with inadequate resources’
New York/IBNS: Some 75 countries and non-governmental organizations have pledged $130 million in financial commitments to the UN agency that assists Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, UNRWA, following a virtual conference on Tuesday.
UN agencies welcome regional road map to help integrate ‘continuing exodus of Venezuelans’
New York, July 9 (IBNS): A new road map adopted by Latin American and Caribbean countries, to help better integrate refugees and migrants from crisis-hit Venezuela into new host societies, drew a warm welcome from two UN agencies on Monday.
Migrant caravan: UN agency helping ‘exhausted’ people home
New York, Dec 1 (IBNS): Hundreds of people from Central American States who joined the human caravans travelling towards the United States have been helped home after asking for assistance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
Looming famine in Yemen could put two million mothers at risk of death – UN agency
New York, Nov 2 (IBNS): The critical difficulties in accessing food in Yemen, and other hardships caused by the ongoing conflict, could lead to the world’s worst famine ever, and place up to two million malnourished, pregnant and lactating women at risk of death, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, said on Thursday.
Donors come to UN agency’s aid with extra $118 million to help Palestine refugees
New York, Sept 28 (IBNS): International donors on Thursday pledged an additional $118 million for the United Nations agency assisting Palestine refugees to help overcome what its chief called its “greatest and gravest financial crisis ever.”
Acute lack of funding threatens critical aid for Palestinians : UN agency
New York, July 26 (IBNS): Despite major fundraising efforts, UNRWA – the UN agency tasked with providing life-saving support to Palestinian refugees – is facing the “largest ever reduction in funding” in its history which is threatening the very existence of many of its critical assistance programmes.
New York, July 21 (IBNS): United Nations migration agency staff in Yemen say the key port city of Hudaydah remains “a difficult environment” for the delivery of aid to thousands of people displaced by heavy fighting this week.
UN agencies urge global action as drought looms over Africa’s Sahel region
New York, May 4 (IBNS): United Nations agencies have urged greater international support to stave off severe food insecurity in Africa’s western Sahel; a region reeling from the effects of conflict and now threatened by drought and rising hunger.
Cameroonians pour into Nigeria, stretching scant resources – UN refugee agency
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): As more and more Anglophone Cameroonians flee a violent crackdown in the region and seek asylum in Nigeria, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday without more funding and assistance, their situation and that of the Nigerian communities hosting them, will become even more desperate.
UN agency sets ambitious target to reduce hunger and poverty for millions worldwide
New York, Feb 14 (JEN): Amid a global rise in hunger and poverty on back of the impacts of climate change and conflict, the United Nations rural development agency today announced an ambitious target to generate resources to fund loans and grants to enable millions in developing countries strengthen their food security and livelihoods.