Press Releases
At least 400,000 Severely Malnourished Children at Risk of Dying in DR Congo’s Volatile Kasai Region
12/12/2017
NEW YORK (December 12, 2017) – At least 400,000 children under five in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are suffering from severe acute malnutrition and could die in 2018 if...
UNICEF/WHO: Bangladesh Moves to Protect Rohingya Children from Diphtheria
12/12/2017
NEW YORK (December 12, 2017) – The Government of Bangladesh, with the support of UNICEF, the World Health Organization and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, today launched a vaccination campaign against...
UNICEF: Make the Digital World Safer for Children – While Increasing Online Access to Benefit the Most Disadvantaged
12/11/2017
NEW YORK (December 11, 2017) – Despite children’s massive online presence – 1 in 3 internet users worldwide is a child – too little is done to protect them from the perils of the digital world and to...
Intense Violence in Syria’s East Ghouta Shutters Schools, Deprives Children of Medical Care – UNICEF
12/10/2017
NEW YORK (December 10, 2017) – Continuing violence across East Ghouta, some 10km outside the Syrian capital, Damascus, has reportedly led to the closure of most schools in the area over the past month...
17 Million Babies under the Age of 1 Breathe Toxic Air, Majority Live in South Asia – UNICEF
12/06/2017
NEW YORK (December 6, 2017) – Almost 17 million babies under the age of one live in areas where air pollution is at least six times higher than international limits, causing them to breathe toxic air...
Global Complacency Threatens the Lives of Children and Adolescents as World Set to Miss Global AIDS Target
12/01/2017
NEW YORK (December 1, 2017) – In 2016, 120,000 children under the age of 14 died of AIDS related causes, and 18 children were infected with HIV every single hour. If current trends persist, there will...
Statement by Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, on the School Attack in Borno State
11/30/2017
NEW YORK (November 30, 2017) – " Today’s attack on a primary school in the town of Kuaya Kusar, Borno State, in which two children were brutally killed and two others injured, is a despicable act....
Global Agreements on Migration and Refugees Should Include Commitments to Protect Children, UNICEF Urges World Leaders
11/30/2017
NEW YORK (November 30, 2017) – The rights, protection and well-being of uprooted children should be central commitments of global migration policies, UNICEF said today ahead of a meeting in Puerto...
UNICEF Snowflake Ball Raises $3.7 Million to Put Children First
11/29/2017
NEW YORK (November 29, 2017) – On November 28, UNICEF USA hosted the 13 th annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani Wall Street, celebrating UNICEF’s lifesaving work for children around the world and...
Child Malnutrition Levels Increase Sharply in Besieged Syrian Town of East Ghouta
11/29/2017
NEW YORK (November 29, 2017) – Violence, lack of humanitarian access and sky-rocketing food prices have worsened malnutrition among young children in besieged East Ghouta. Nearly 400,000 people – half...