Humanitarian Aid

Bangladesh Ambassador to Myanmar Monwar Hossain handed over the relief materials to the Chief Minister of Yangon Soe Thein at a simple ceremony at the airport today (30 March). Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Bangladesh hands over first consignment of humanitarian relief to quake-hit Myanmar

Bangladesh also stands ready to deploy a 50-member rescue team

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters in Cox's Bazar's Balukhali Rohingya camp (Camp 18) on 14 March 2025. Photo: PID
Rohingya Crisis

UN chief vows to 'speak loud' to avert ration cuts for Rohingyas in Bangladesh

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, March 1, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Global Economy

UN seeks $47 billion in aid as donor appetite shrinks while crises multiply

In the capital on 29 September. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain
Bangladesh

UN launches $134m humanitarian appeal for Bangladesh's disaster-affected communities

Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko attends 'Ukraine. Year 2024' conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Europe

Ukraine sends humanitarian aid to occupied part of Russia's Kursk region

Palestinian children gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid food scarcity, as Israel-Hamas conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Italy sends humanitarian flight with aid for Gaza population

Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

50 aid workers lost lives on humanitarian duty in Ethiopia in 2024: WFP

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sketch: TBS
Bangladesh

Palestinian ambassador express gratitude to PM Sheikh Hasina for humanitarian aid

Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip - via land, sea and air routes - and set up UN monitoring of the humanitarian assistance delivered, during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, US, December 22, 2023. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
Hamas-Israel war

UN Security Council acts to boost aid to Gaza after US abstains

A worker of Venezuelan Red Cross walks past a truck with logo of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) carrying humanitarian aid, at a warehouse where the aid will be stored, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
World+Biz

Red Cross elects US humanitarian to lead network after rocky meeting

United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths gestures as he stands near damaged buildings, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Aleppo, Syria 13 February, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Firas Makdesi/FILE PHOTO
World+Biz

UN appeals for $46 bln to meet humanitarian needs in 2024

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca walks as medical staff carry a Palestinian cancer patient who was evacuated from Gaza to Egypt and brought to Turkey by plane, at Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Turkey says it plans evacuation of some wounded, sick Gazan children on Friday

FILE PHOTO: Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians, are seen on the day of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Humanitarians want more aid for Gaza, access to hostages under Israel-Hamas truce