Press Releases
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....
Syria: Up To 1 Million People At Risk Due To Severe Interruptions To Alouk Water Station
07/15/2021
NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – “The persistent interruptions of essential services to civilians in Syria are increasing. Ongoing disruptions to the critical Alouk water station in northeast Syria must...
COVID-19 Reversals In Childhood Vaccinations In South Asia Undo Years Of Progress, New WHO, UNICEF Data Shows
07/15/2021
NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major reductions in childhood vaccinations in South Asia, with coverage of basic vaccination dropping by 6 percent points from 2019 to 2020...
COVID-19 Pandemic Leads To Major Backsliding On Childhood Vaccinations, New WHO, UNICEF Data Shows
07/15/2021
NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunization services in 2020 – 3.7 million more than in 2019 - according to official data published today...
Statement On The Arrival Of The First Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccines In Haiti
07/15/2021
NEW YORK (July 15, 2021) – Until yesterday, Haiti was the only country in the Americas without a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Today 500,000 doses of vaccine donated by the U.S government through...