Press Releases
Joint Release By FAO, UNICEF, WFP: Record Number Of People Facing Critical Lack Of Food In South Sudan
06/14/2019
NEW YORK (June 14, 2019) – The number of people facing a critical lack of food in South Sudan is the highest ever, three United Nations agencies warned today. According to the Integrated Food Security...
UNICEF USA Responds to the United States-Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act
06/13/2019
NEW YORK (June 13, 2019) – Last month, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced the United States-Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act (H.R. 2615). This bipartisan bill...
UNICEF Launches Swift Response As First Ebola Cases And Deaths Confirmed In Uganda
06/13/2019
KAMPALA / NAIROBI / NEW YORK (June 13, 2019) – UNICEF has launched an emergency Ebola response plan in Uganda following the confirmation of the first three cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in the...
Children Killed, Injured, Detained And Abused Amid Escalating Violence And Unrest In Sudan
06/11/2019
NEW YORK (June 11, 2019) – “At least 19 children have reportedly been killed in Sudan and another 49 have been injured since June 3. I am gravely concerned at the impact of the continuing violence and...
UNICEF Ramps Up Its Humanitarian Assistance To Children In Venezuela, Delivers 55 Tons Of Health Supplies Since January
06/07/2019
Download photos and videos here NEW YORK (June 7, 2019) – Fifty-five tons of UNICEF health supplies have reached Venezuela since the beginning of the year, the United Nations children’s organization...
Pocket-Sized Innovation, Giant Impact: New App And Online System Launches In South Sudan To Support Most Vulnerable Children
06/07/2019
NEW YORK (June 7, 2019) – A new online database and application designed to better protect children in emergencies is today being launched in Juba by UNICEF, Save the Children and a network of child...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits children displaced by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique
05/30/2019
BEIRA / NEW YORK, (MAY 30, 2019) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Mozambique this week, where 1.1 million children remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in the aftermath...
Tens Of Thousands Of Children In Grave Danger As Violence Escalates In Northwest Syria
05/30/2019
NEW YORK (May 30, 2019) – “Tens of thousands of children in northwest Syria are at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement because of a significant escalation in fighting. Violence has...
Attack in Taiz Leaves 7 Children Dead, Brings Total Child Casualties in Yemen to 27 in Just Over 10 Days
05/26/2019
NEW YORK (May 26, 2019) – “Seven children between the ages of 4 and 14 were killed on Friday in an attack on the Mawiyah district, in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz. “This attack brings to 27 the...
UNICEF USA Statement on Recent Deaths of Migrant Children
05/24/2019
NEW YORK (May 24, 2019) – Recent reports about the deaths of migrant and refugee children during the immigration and asylum process are deeply upsetting. Every child, no matter where they come from...