(New York/Geneva/Rome, 5 July 2023): Four million people in northwest Syria – most of them women and children – rely on humanitarian aid to survive following years of conflict, economic shocks,...
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UN humanitarian leaders urge Security Council to preserve cross-border aid lifeline to north-west Syria
(New York/Geneva/Rome, 2 January 2023): United Nations Security Council resolution 2642 – which allows for life-saving humanitarian aid to be delivered to north-west Syria from across the Turkish...
UN humanitarian leaders call for the renewal of cross-border aid authorisation to north-west Syria [EN/AR]
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME – In less than a month, the Security Council resolution that allows the United Nations and our implementing partners to provide lifesaving humanitarian aid to north-west Syria...
Joint Statement occasion of World Food Day and the Syria Crisis [EN/AR]
16 October 2021 – On this World Food Day, we express our concern over the widespread and growing hunger in Syria. Ten years of devastating crisis, the recent severe economic decay, and COVID-19 have...
Joint Statement on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day [EN/AR]
19 August 2021 – On this day, World Humanitarian Day, we stand together to pay tribute to humanitarians in Syria and worldwide. Every year, we take this critical moment to extend our deepest...
Joint Statement on the Syria Cross-Border Security Council Resolution Renewal [EN/AR]
11 July 2021 - We welcome the renewal of Security Council authorization for cross-border assistance to north-west Syria, as it will continue to offer a life-line to millions of people. The crisis in...
Statement on the Renewal of Humanitarian Lifeline to Millions of People in North-West Syria
(Rome/Geneva/New York, 18 June 2021): Millions of people are pressed up against the border in an active war zone in north-west Syria and remain in need of humanitarian aid to survive. The UN needs...
Joint Statement on Syria, 16 January 2017
WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien WHO Director-General Dr...
Joint Statement on Syria [EN/AR]
After five years of a brutal and senseless conflict over a quarter of a million Syrians have been killed and over half the population forced from their homes out of fear and want. Some 4.6 million...
Joint statement: An appeal to end the suffering in Syria [EN/AR/ES/FR/RU/ZH]
More than 120 humanitarian organizations and United Nations agencies issued a joint appeal today urging the world to raise their voices and call for an end to the Syria crisis and to the suffering...
UN Joint Statement: As Syria conflict enters a fifth year, what does it take to end the crisis and end the suffering?
Joint statement by: *- Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Margaret Chan, Director-General of the...
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Joint statement on Security Council Resolution 2165 on humanitarian access in Syria [EN/AR]
NEW YORK/ROME, 16 July, 2014. We welcome Security Council Resolution 2165 on humanitarian access in Syria, which should enable us to reach up to 2.9 million more people with vital aid. This...
Joint statement by heads of UN humanitarian agencies on Syria
NEW YORK, GENEVA, ROME, 23 April, 2014. One year ago, as leaders of UN agencies struggling to deal with the growing human impact of the Syrian crisis, we issued an urgent appeal on behalf of millions...
Top humanitarian leaders pen open letter to Geneva II peace talk participants calling for urgent action to protect Syrian children
With the parties in Syria’s conflict meeting in Geneva tomorrow, we believe the time has come to urgently focus on the plight of children. Over 11,000 Syrian children have already lost their lives...
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"How Much Longer?"
STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN COMMUNITY How much longer must children suffer from hunger? How much longer must women die in childbirth for lack of medical care? How much longer must we...
Appeal by heads of leading UN humanitarian agencies for the people of Syria
Enough. Enough. After more than two years of conflict and more than 70,000 deaths, including thousands of children… After more than five million people have been forced to leave their homes,...