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Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg on Yemen and the Philippines - Press Statement

Noon briefing, 2 December 201

Ladies and gentlemen,

I have just returned from a four-day mission to Yemen and I must say that I am extremely concerned that millions of people around the country are facing a severe and worsening humanitarian crisis.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Annual report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy (A/HRC/18/38)

Human Rights Council

Eighteenth session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

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Press conference by Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes

Rescue efforts were winding down and emergency relief getting into full gear in response to the successive natural disasters that recently hit Asia and the Pacific, John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

"It's a very bad time for this region, with different disasters, not linked to each other, but coming together in this tragic way," said Mr. Holmes at a press conference organized to brief correspondents on the $74 million flash appeal for the Philippines,

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Children's rights committee to hold fifty-second session in Geneva from 14 Sep to 2 Oct 2009

Committee on the Rights of the Child
BACKGROUND RELEASE

Situation of Children's Rights in Turkey, Philippines, Mozambique, Bolivia, Poland, Pakistan, Qatar and Yemen to be Reviewed

The Committee on the Rights of the Child will meet at Palais Wilson in Geneva from 14 September to 2 October 2009 to review the promotion and protection of children's rights under the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Philippines, Mozambique, Bolivia, Pakistan and Qatar. The Committee will also review efforts made