Press Releases

NEW YORK / GENEVA / NAY PYI TAW / YANGON (January 30, 2019) – UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore urged Myanmar’s authorities to invest in all children, to build a stronger, more harmonious...

KINSHASA / NEW YORK (January 30, 2019) – Since the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared six months ago on August 1, 2018, more than 740 people – 30 percent...

NEW YORK / STAMFORD (January 28, 2019) – UNICEF Kid Power and WWE (NYSE: WWE) today announced a new partnership that will help give kids the power to save lives by connecting their everyday activity...

CARACAS / PANAMA CITY / NEW YORK (January 25, 2019) – “UNICEF regrets and condemns the reported loss of lives, including the deaths of teenagers, during recent demonstrations in Venezuela, and...

NEW YORK (January 24, 2019) – More than 145,000 Rohingya refugee children living in camps in south-east Bangladesh are now attending UNICEF-supported learning centers, as a new school year begins...

Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa NEW YORK (January 15, 2019) – “Freezing temperatures and harsh living conditions in Rukban, at...

NEW YORK, (January 1, 2019) – Almost 11,283 babies will be born in the United States on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. American babies will account for approximately 2.9 percent of the estimated...

NEW YORK / AMMAN / BEIRUT / DAMASCUS (December 13, 2018) – With an estimated 4 million children born in Syria since the conflict started nearly eight years ago, half of the country’s children have...

NEW YORK (December 12, 2018) – Fifteen thousand children remain separated from their families or missing, five years after conflict first broke out in South Sudan. More than four million people have...

NEW YORK (December 11, 2018) – Children now account for more than one-third of the Ebola cases in affected regions of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNICEF said today. The UN...