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As of\ntoday, 464 people were confirmed as having lost their lives. There were still\n977 people missing, of whom 517 were believed to be foreign. The damage was\nincredible: over 40 kilometers of roads had been completely destroyed. Search\nand rescue remained a priority, with the focus on saving lives. Help was being\nbrought in by helicopters because certain areas were completely cut off.\nElectricity was also an issue, said Ms. Pieters Yahia. Over 30,000 military and\nsecurity personnel had been mobilized in a massive operation run by the\nGovernment, and the UN was scaling up its own support and in close coordination\nwith the Government, which was in the lead. Answering questions, Ms. Pieters\nYahia confirmed that the search and rescue operations were well underway. Multiple\nteams were engaged in search and rescue on the ground, she reiterated, and they\nwere putting an enormous effort around the clock to find survivors.\n\nKamal Kishore, Head of the United\nNations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), said that Nepal\nhad not seen such a massive disaster in the living memory. This was a time to\nstand in solidarity with the people and the Government of Nepal. All the\ninvestment made by the Government and the international system was now being\nput to good use. The situation was very dynamic and constantly evolving; continued\nvigilance was needed for possible cascading hazards happening up in the\nmountains. Many hazards were transboundary, stressed Mr. Kishore, and mountains\nwere a particularly challenging terrain for early warning systems. People of\nNepal now needed to be helped to go on a path of sustainable recovery.\n\nDavid Fisher, for the International\nFederation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), speaking from\nKathmandu, said that the trauma from this event was enormous. The emotional\nimpact and the initial needs were very high, and many areas were still\naccessible only by helicopter. One area could not even go through early damage\nand needs assessment because it was inaccessible. Current estimates suggested\naround 93,000 people might have been affected; the death toll was high and continued\nto rise. A big worry was secondary floods. IFRC was in contact with its\nvolunteers who were working hand-in-hand with the authorities. IFRC had issued\nan appeal for CHF 25 million, to run for 12 months, and meant to cover shelter,\nwater, sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial support, and recovery efforts. International\nsolidarity should not focus only on immediate survival but also long-term\nrecovery.\n\nRicardo Pires, for the United Nations\nChildren's Fund (UNICEF), said that at least 17,000 children were in urgent\nneed of humanitarian assistance. Numbers of deceased and missing children were\nlikely to go up. Many children had lost their family members and seen their\nschools and homes destroyed. For survivors, the emergency was far from over;\nthe consequences for children could last for months or even years, especially\nwhen topography was so complex. Some of the hardest hit areas made it very\ndifficult for humanitarians to reach affected communities. An estimated 10,000\nchildren in the affected areas needed support to continue education, said Mr.\nPires. UNICEF was appealing for USD 17.2 million to sustain its early emergency\nresponse.\n\nTarik Jašarević, for the World Health\nOrganization (WHO), said that WHO staff had visited some affected areas\ntoday, but had to cut their visit short because of the continuing flooding. Six\nhealth facilities had been damaged: four fully damaged in Rasuwa and two\npartially damaged in Dhading; eight health workers were missing. Health\nauthorities and partners were coordinating to manage patients, ensure blood\navailability, provide first aid and maintain emergency response capacity. Following\na disaster of this scale, displacement, overcrowding and disruption to water,\nsanitation and health services could increase the risk of infectious diseases. Within\nhours, WHO had mobilized and dispatched essential emergency medical supplies,\nincluding an Interagency Emergency Health Kit that could cater to the health\nneeds of nearly 10,000 people for three months, along with multipurpose tents\nand body bags. WHO was working closely with the Government and partners to\nidentify the most urgent health needs and assess damage to health facilities.\n\nAlessandra Vellucci, for the UN\nInformation Service, recalled the expression by the Secretary-General\nof his strong sadness for the severe flooding in Nepal and China and his\nsolidarity with all those affected. He had extended his condolences to the\nfamilies of the victims and wished a swift recovery to those injured. Jens\nLaerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs\n(OCHA), said that Tom Fletcher, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, had just\nissued a statement on X,\nin which he praised the humanitarians saving lives after the ferocious floods\nand warned of risks of further disasters.\n\nAnswering questions from the media, Mr.\nLaerke, for OCHA, said that assessments were ongoing and there was no overall\nfigure at the time being. Mr. Fisher, for IFRC, said that the 93,000 people in\nneed was only an initial estimate, while an assessment by the national\nauthorities was now underway. Mr. Kishore, for UNDRR, said that the situation\nin the affected areas was very fluid and high-risk, creating a unique challenge\nfor the first respondents. Mr. Jašarević, for WHO, said that there was a\nchallenge of not having access to clean water increasing risk of infectious\ndiseases. The risk of respiratory diseases was also high, and people with\ntraumas also needed to reach medical care without delay.\n\nEl Niño\n\nKamal Kishore, Head of the United\nNations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), explained that EL\nNiño by itself was not a disaster or even a hazard. It was a phenomenon with\nmultiple facets, some of which were beneficial. Number of UN agencies came\ntogether to provide coordinated guidance in this regard to UN resident\ncoordinators in affected areas. He stressed that dealing with the risks\nassociated with El Niño was not a sprint – it was a marathon and would take\nseveral months. No two El Niños were alike, which meant thorough monitoring and\nanticipation were critical over the coming months. Often, the focus was on only\none or two sectors, primarily agriculture, but the effects were in reality\nmultisectorial, with energy repercussions, impacts on infrastructure, etc.\nCountries ought to take a multisectorial approach, supported by the UN. The\nfocus should be on the local level, with most vulnerable communities\nidentified. Making resources available at the local level was a critical element,\nemphasized Mr. Kishore. Finally, he informed that the upcoming Africa Early Warnings Forum 2026\nwould take place in-person on 2-4 September in Addis Ababa.\n\nClare Nullis, for the World Meteorological\nOrganization (WMO), said that on 3 September at 10 am, WMO would be issuing\nnext El Niño update. It was hoped that an embargoed information package would\nbe sent out a day or two in advance. United Nations agencies were working very\nclosely on this, she reiterated.\n\nHealth situation in Ukraine\n\nDr. Jarno Habicht, World Health\nOrganization (WHO) Ukraine Representative, speaking from Kyiv, ​​​​​​​referred\nto the previous week's daytime attack on a crowded shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih,\nfar from the frontline, as families had been preparing for the new school year.\nAs a result of two attacks, 140 people had been injured, including 23 children,\nand 16 people had lost their lives. This was just an example from past 4.5\nyears, which put civilians under daily risk and stress and at the same time\ntested the health system to provide care.\n\nWHO had continued deliveries to the Donetsk\nOblast, which had allowed us to reach 51 hard-to-reach communities with\nmuch-needed medicines, hospital equipment, and other medical supplies. WHO also\ncontinued to provide medical supplies to Health Cluster partners, to reach out\nto other communities. The WHO-supported primary health care teams had provided\n13,130 consultations in the past eight months in seven regions, and WHO was\nprogressing at the same pace as previous year. In hard-to-reach areas, where\nthe pharmacies were closed, the WHO delivered over-the-counter medicine kits,\nreaching 28,400 people.\n\nMr. Habicht further said that, as of today,\nWHO had reported 3,205 attacks on health. 2026 had already seen 20 attacks on\nwarehouses where humanitarian supplies were held, including 13 health-related\nsupplies. WHO had experienced attacks in July in Kyiv and August in Dnipro,\nwhere it had lost a considerable number of medical supplies and equipment,\nintended to reach 225,000 people. He stressed that the toll on Ukraine's health\nworkforce was also becoming increasingly clear. Recent WHO national research\nshowed that more than one in four doctors and nurses reported symptoms\ncompatible with a major depressive disorder, while one in five healthcare\nworkers reported signs of an anxiety disorder.\n\nFinally, Dr. Habicht warned that we had to be\nprepared for another difficult winter and do everything possible to save lives.\nTo help keep essential health services running, WHO had already installed 30\nheating units in health facilities, with 22 more planned before winter. He\ninformed that this was his last briefing in his role as WHO Representative in\nUkraine. The most important lesson he took was that response, recovery and\nreform could not wait for one another; they had to happen together,\nsimultaneously.\n\nViolence in Haiti\n\nMarta Hurtado, for\nthe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), stated\nthat a recent armed attack\nin Kenscoff, a commune on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, was a\nstark reminder of the persistent brutality of gang violence\nthat is inflicted on local and displaced populations in\nHaiti. Based on information verified so far, at least\n47 people had been killed in the 23 August attack,\nincluding three boys and two girls. More than 52\npeople had been abducted. Providing further details, Ms. Hurtado said that approximately 150 heavily armed gang\nmembers had stormed several localities near downtown Kenscoff\nand opened fire at residents attempting to flee through the streets,\nkilling at least 13. The attackers had then subsequently pursued\nmore than 50 residents who had sought refuge in a Protestant\nchurch. After forcing them out of the church premises, they had executed\n22 of them in the church courtyard, and 12 others behind the\nchurch.\n\nIllicit flows of firearms and ammunition into\nHaiti continued to bolster and empower armed gangs. On 24 August, another gang\noperating in Port-au-Prince appeared to display on social media what\nseemed to be a new shipment of weapons arriving from abroad, despite the United\nNations arms embargo on Haiti, in place since 2022. This came as\nHaitians continued to endure horrific human rights violations and\nabuses. Between 1 April and 30 June this year, the Human Rights\nService in the UN Integrated Office in Haiti had recorded 1,408 people killed\nand 656 injured in the context of gang-related violence. In the\nsame period, 326 people had been subjected to sexual violence, although\nthe figures were likely to be substantially higher. The High\nCommissioner urged all relevant actors to ensure strict\napplication of both domestic and international regulations on arms control, as\nwell as adherence to the UN arms embargoes on Haiti.\n\nOHCHR statement is available here.\n\n65 years of the Statelessness Convention\n\nElizabeth Tan, Director of International\nProtection and Solutions at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR),\nsaid that 65 years since the conclusion of the 1961 Convention on the\nReduction of Statelessness, UNHCR was calling for renewed political commitment\nto ensure that everyone could enjoy the right to a nationality. At least 4.5\nmillion people worldwide were known to be stateless or of undetermined\nnationality; millions more were affected but remained invisible in official\ndata. For them, statelessness was a daily reality that could stop life in its\ntracks and often trapped generations into cycles of exclusion and uncertainty.\nIt could mean being unable to obtain identity documents, go to school, access\nhealth care, or work legally. In many cases, it could prevent people from\nregistering their child's birth, marrying, owning property, opening a bank\naccount or travelling freely.\n\nProgress was possible: since 2014, more than\n650,000 stateless people had acquired or confirmed their nationality, while 94\ncountries had strengthened their nationality laws to help prevent\nstatelessness. In 2019, for example, Kyrgyzstan had become the first country to\nresolve all known cases of statelessness in its territory, followed by\nTurkmenistan in 2024. In Thailand, over 120,000 stateless people had secured\nnationality or permanent residence through accelerated procedures put in place\nin 2025. Yet, the drivers of statelessness remained deeply entrenched,\nincluding discrimination in nationality laws and practices, gaps in nationality\nlegislation and arbitrary deprivation of nationality. In 24 countries, women\nstill could not confer nationality on their children on an equal basis with\nmen. Arbitrary deprivation of nationality was also a concern.\n\nUNHCR\ncalled on States to translate commitments into results; protect stateless\npeople and provide pathways to nationality, reform discriminatory nationality\nlaws and practices creating new cases of stateless, accede to the UN\nStatelessness Conventions, and to join the Global Alliance to End\nStatelessness for collective action.\nResolving statelessness was a solvable problem, concluded Ms. Tan.\n\nThe\nfull statement is available here.\n\nAnnouncements\n\nDavid Hirsch, for the International\nTelecommunication Union (ITU), informed that on 2 September at 10:15 pm,\nITU would release the Greening Digital Companies 2026 report with the World Benchmarking\nAlliance. The report evaluated the climate performance of 200 digital companies\nglobally by tracking key measures such as greenhouse gas emissions, energy\nconsumption, renewable energy use. For the first time, the 2026 report would\nalso track climate transition planning. Embargoed versions of the report and\npress release could be requested by writing pressinfo@itu.int.\n\nMarcelo Risi, for the United\nNations Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said that UNCTAD would convene the ninth World Investment Forum in Doha from 25 to 27 October, under the theme \"Investing\nin the Future.\" The World Investment\nForum was the UN's leading platform for the global investment community, which\nbrought together governments, investors, business leaders, investment promotion\nagencies, international organizations and financial institutions to look at how\ninvestment can better support development. The central question for Doha was:\nhow could investment reach more economies, support sustainable development and\nhelp countries prepare for the future? The programme would include global\nleaders' plenaries, ministerial roundtables, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges\nDialogue, sessions on investment in the Gulf region, and discussions covering\nareas such as AI, critical minerals, energy, infrastructure, sustainable\nfinance, tourism and culture, and the space economy.\n\nAlessandra Vellucci, for the\nUnited Nations Information Service (UNIS), informed that the Committee on the Rights of the\nChild (CRC) would open its 101st session on 1 September, at 10 am. During this session, the\nCommittee would review the reports of Lesotho, Timor-Leste, Tanzania, Uganda,\nBurkina Faso, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan.\n\nFinally, Ms. Vellucci reminded that 29 August would\nbe the International Day against Nuclear Tests, 30 August would be the International Day of the Victims of Enforced\nDisappearances, and 31 August the International Day for People of African Descent.\n\n***\n\nThe webcast for this briefing is available here.\n\nThe audio for this briefing is available here.","categories":["Media","Press Conferences"],"geographic_subject":["NEPAL","UKRAINE","HAITI"],"subject_topical":[],"corporate_name":["INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES - IFRC","UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA","UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF","WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO","UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR","OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 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