New York, Dec 23 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the international community to scale up support for the massive typhoon recovery plan under way in the Philippi ...

New York, Dec 18 (JEN): With the lives of nearly six million children disrupted by the typhoon that devastated the Philippines a month ago, 1.4 million of whom lost their family homes, the ...

New York, Dec 17 (JEN): The United Nations and its partners will need nearly USD 13 billion in funding to reach millions of people with life-saving aid in 2014, with half of that sought for ...

Washington, Dec 14 (JEN) Donors pledged $404.6 million for the United Nations fund that enables the quick delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid to those who need it most around the world, ...

New York, Dec 11 (JEN): As the Syrian crisis passes the tragic 1,000-day mark, the United Nations refugee agency is working hard to meet the “immense needs” of desperate communi ...

New York, Dec 11 (JEN): United Nations agencies are scaling up efforts to assist the scores of civilians uprooted by the surging violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), reported to ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): The United Nations Friday increased its appeal for Philippines typhoon relief by nearly 16 per cent to USD 348 million with a further rise likely as aid organization ...

New York, Nov 22 (JEN): As food aid reached nearly 2.7 million survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the central Philippines earlier this month, the top United Nations emergency reli ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): The United Nations is ramping up relief operations in the Philippines as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned a climate conference Tuesday that the deadly devastat ...