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1 year on: 700,000 Rohingyas live in Cox’s Bazar with a population density 1.5 times that of Manilla

This August marks the one year anniversary of the start of the Rakhine crisis which...

Lebanon relaxes law to allow 50,000 Syrian children’s births to be registered

Lebanon has relaxed its law on registering new-born children to remove a complex and...

15% of all new funding for Rohingya crisis should go to women and girls, says Oxfam

Oxfam has found that Rohingya women living in refugee camps in Bangladesh miss out...

324 killed and 10,000 stranded by Kerala flooding

Flooding in the Indian state of Kerala has killed 324 people with the death toll expected...

World Humanitarian Day: 19th August

August 19th marked World Humanitarian Day, a day that rallies support for people affected...

Flash Floods in Sudan kill 23 and displace almost 9,000 families

Flash flooding and heavy rain has caused widespread destruction in Sudan, with reports...

UNAMA urges Taliban and Government to seek political solution to conflict in Ghazni city

Tadamichi Yamamoto, Head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has...

Flooding expected to continue across East Africa throughout 2018

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has warned that East Africa is...

‘Multilateralism is more important than ever’ highlights António Guterres in annual report

António Guterres, UN Secretary General, released the Annual Report of the Secretary...

Natural disasters force 26 million into poverty each year

The World Bank estimates that disasters cost the global economy $520 billion each...

South Sudan and Syria are the most dangerous places to deliver aid, according to latest report

Humanitarian Outcomes have today released their ‘Aid Worker Security Report’...

Ecuador declares state of emergency following influx of Venezuelan migrants

Every day 5000 Venezuelans are fleeing into their neighbouring countries. They are...

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