The United States and Cambodia militaries have been conducting humanitarian assistance events and military to military subject matter expert exchanges from June 6 to 18 in southwestern Cambodia's Kampot province, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are one humanity with a shared responsibility," the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit ended here on Tuesday with these words of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
World leaders have joined calls by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for improving the global humanitarian situation through conflict prevention and resolution in the ongoing world humanitarian summit held here on May 23-24.
The United Nations would like to see world leaders commit to halving the number of internally displaced people by 2030, UN relief chief Stephen O' Brien said on Sunday ahead of a key summit.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that significant humanitarian needs remained in Fiji two months after Cyclone Winston, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.
Russia submitted to the United Nations (UN)a list of settlements in Syria which require immediate humanitarian aid, the country's Defense Ministry said Monday.
Stephen O'Brien, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, on Wednesday urged the whole international community to get behind the process which seeks to ease the suffering for millions of desperate Syrian people and end "one of the most savage and brutal conflicts of the 21st century," saying that besieged Syrians "believe the world has forgotten them."
The UN Security Council Friday was briefed on humanitarian access to besieged areas in Syria ahead of much-anticipated political talks on Jan. 25.
The UN health agency has delivered more than 100 tonnes of medicines and supplies for 1.2 million people in strife-torn Yemen's central Taiz governorate, where more than three million people, of whom, almost 400,000 were internally displaced, are in dire need of humanitarian aid, UN officials said here Monday.
The United Nations in Syria, in partnership with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said Monday they have successfully facilitated the evacuation of more than 450 people including the injured and their accompanying family members.
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday said that the health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, calling for a fundamental change to address women's health in conflicts and disasters.
Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the Shiite Houthi fighters in Yemen for about three weeks, and experts believe that the military offensive would head nowhere if political solutions are left untried.
U.S. will keep air operations in Iraq with the aim to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Iraqi civilians, said the Pentagon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday called on militia in southeastern Ukraine to open a humanitarian corridor for encircled Ukrainian servicemen.
Russia is sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine in collaboration with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, President Vladimir Putin told on Monday.
The United States, Britain and France have begun to offer food, water and other badly needed supplies to displaced civilians stranded by Islamic State (IS) militants in mountainous northern Iraq.
Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday described the UN Security Council's draft resolution on Syria as "counterproductive" and the ideas proposed by Western partners as "absolutely one-sided and detached from reality."
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