Press Releases
UNICEF Mobilizes Hundreds of Community Workers to Fight Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
05/18/2018
NEW YORK (May 18, 2018) – Scaling up in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNICEF, with the Government of DRC and partners, is mobilizing hundreds of community...
UNICEF Delivers Urgently Needed Health Supplies for 70,000 People in the Gaza Strip
05/17/2018
NEW YORK (May 16, 2018) – UNICEF and partners have delivered two truck-loads of urgently needed medical supplies to the Gaza Strip – enough to meet the needs of an estimated 70,000 people. The drugs...
More Than 60 Rohingya Babies Born in Bangladesh Refugee Camps Every Day – UNICEF
05/16/2018
NEW YORK (May 17, 2018) – More than 16,000 Rohingya babies have been born in refugee camps and informal settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in the nine months since a spike in violence in Rakhine...
Stop Attacks on Children
05/14/2018
NEW YORK (May 15, 2018) – “From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, and from Syria to Afghanistan, attacks on children in conflict have continued unabated during the first four months of the...
Winter Cash Assistance Helps Syrian Children Wrap Up Warm
05/02/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – Winter cash assistance enabled families in Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps to buy warm clothes for their children before freezing temperatures set in and is an effective...
Aid Workers Released Unharmed in South Sudan
05/02/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – Ten aid workers who had been detained by an armed group since Wednesday, 25 April, outside of South Sudan’s Yei town were released today. The group returned safely to Juba...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore on Deaths of 11 Children in Kandahar, Afghanistan
05/01/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – “I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the attack which reportedly killed 11 children this morning while they were studying at a religious school in Afghanistan’s...
UNICEF KID POWER SAVES THE LIVES OF OVER 70,000 CHILDREN
05/01/2018
NEW YORK, NY (May 1, 2018) – UNICEF USA announced that its UNICEF Kid Power has unlocked more than 10 million packets of lifesaving nutrition, enough to save the lives of over 70,000 malnourished...
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Fatoumata Ndiaye Hands Over a Health Post in Nepal
04/26/2018
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018) – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Fatoumata Ndiaye handed over a health post building in Malu, Dolakha District, on the day after the three-year anniversary of the...
Nearly 5 Million Syrian Children Accessing Education Despite Over Seven Years of War on Children
04/23/2018
NEW YORK (April 23, 2018) – Against all odds, 4.9 million Syrian children continue to have access to education despite more than seven long years of war, violence and displacement. “Massive funding...