Press Releases
One Year After The Beirut Explosions, Children’s Needs Remain Acute, With 98 Percent Of Families Still In Need
08/03/2021
NEW YORK (August 3, 2021) – One year after the devastating explosions in Beirut, a UNICEF survey shows the needs of affected children and families remain acute, magnified by a collapsing economy...
Tenfold Increase In Number Of Children Requiring Treatment For Acute Malnutrition In Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
08/02/2021
NEW YORK (August 2, 2021) – "As UNICEF reaches areas of Tigray that were inaccessible in past months due to insecurity, our worst fears about the health and wellbeing of children in that conflicted...
AVAT To Partner With UNICEF In Scaling Up Vaccine Deliveries To African Union Member States
08/02/2021
NEW YORK (August 2, 2021) – Having secured access to up to 400 million doses of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine, the African Union (AU), African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and UNICEF are partnering to...
Google.org Contributes USD7.5 Million in Grants and Other Support to COVID-19 Relief Efforts in Thailand and Five Asian Countries
07/30/2021
NEW YORK/THAILAND, July 29, 2021: With Thailand and other neighboring countries currently grappling with a surge in COVID-19 cases, Google today announced a total commitment of USD$7.5 million in new...
40 Percent Of Children In Eastern And Southern Africa Are Not In School
07/28/2021
NEW YORK (July 28, 2021) – UNICEF estimates that 40 percent of all school-aged children across Eastern and Southern Africa are currently not in school due to COVID-19-induced closures and pre-pandemic...
Malnutrition Among Children Expected To Quadruple In Southern Madagascar As Drought Worsens, Warn UNICEF And WFP
07/28/2021
NEW YORK (July 28, 2021) – At least half a million children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished including 110,000 in severe condition, in drought-affected southern Madagascar...
UNICEF USA Applauds Enactment of New York State Child Marriage Bill
07/23/2021
NEW YORK (July 23, 2021) - UNICEF USA welcomes the news that New York became is the sixth state in the U.S. to officially ban child marriage with no exceptions after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed...
Water Supply Systems On The Verge Of Collapse In Lebanon: Over 71 Percent Of People Risk Losing Access To Water
07/23/2021
NEW YORK (July 23, 2021) – More than four million people, including one million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing access to safe water in Lebanon. With the rapidly escalating economic crisis...
Students In South Africa Up To One School Year Behind Where They Should Be
07/23/2021
NEW YORK (July 23, 2021) – The impact of disrupted education since the COVID-19 outbreak has been devastating, with students between 75 percent and a full school year behind where they should be...
Statement By UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore On Children Deprived Of Parental Care Due To COVID-19
07/19/2021
NEW YORK (July 19, 2021) – “As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents....