humanitarian relief

A group of UK international aid charities have issued a statement on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar..

Amid reports that Aleppo is ‘de facto besieged’, as the war-battered city is now almost completely encircled by Syrian troops, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has reiterated his demand for safe, regular and sustained access to the quarter of a million people trapped behind the front lines.

A humanitarian convoy has finally reached the besieged Syrian town of Madaya with life-saving health and food supplies from the United Nations and its partners for the 42,000 desperate residents after reports of people starving to death under encirclement by pro-Government forces.

Thirty European relief agencies are calling on governments to “reaffirm and protect” people’s fundamental right to humanitarian aid.