Press Releases
UNICEF study provides new insight into how poverty affects children
NEW YORK (November 22, 2011) — A new UNICEF study analyzing child poverty in East Asia and the Pacific emphasizes that poverty affects children in vastly different ways than adults. As a result...
UNICEF’s digital drum chosen as a Time Magazine Best Invention of 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (November 21, 2011) — UNICEF's innovative Digital Drum has been chosen as one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2011 . The rugged solar-powered kiosk being tested and developed...
UNICEF concerned about the impact of the escalating conflict in Somalia
NEW YORK (Nov 15, 2011) — UNICEF is extremely concerned about the impact of the escalating conflict in Somalia on children. "Increasing numbers of children and civilians are being caught in attacks...
UNICEF provides emergency items for flood victims in Thailand
NEW YORK (November 10, 2011) – UNICEF is providing more than 300,000 water, hygiene and sanitation items, including bars of soap, chlorine drops for water purification, alcohol hand-wash gel and...
UNICEF opens humanitarian warehouse in Dubai for supplies for southern Somalia
NEW YORK (November 7, 2011) —UNICEF announced the opening of its first humanitarian transit hub for nutrition supplies destined for Somalia. Situated in the port of Dubai, the new warehouse will help...
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit UNICEF’s emergency supply center in Copenhagen
NEW YORK (November 2, 2011)—This afternoon the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a special visit to the UNICEF global Supply Center in Copenhagen to help maintain the world's attention on the...
UNICEF and partners race to prevent second wave of death in the Horn of Africa
NEW YORK (October 28, 2011) — One hundred days since famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, UNICEF and its partners are doing their utmost to prevent a second and potentially more...
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit UNICEF's lifesaving Emergency Supply Center to highlight desperate plight of children in East Africa
NEW YORK (October 26, 2011) — On Wednesday November 2, 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be making a special visit to UNICEF's global Supply Center in Copenhagen to help put the global...
Good Shirts collection launched to help UNICEF aid children in the Horn of Africa
NEW YORK (October 25, 2011) – With the worst humanitarian crisis in the world currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa , Threadless, BBH New York and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF have partnered to launch...
UNICEF Children's Champion Award goes to Sting and Trudie Styler
BOSTON (October 24, 2011) — On Thursday, October 20 the U.S. Fund for UNICEF presented Sting and UNICEF UK Ambassador Trudie Styler with its annual Children's Champion Award. This year's award...