Press Releases
Call for Entries: Annual Pier 1 Imports®/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest Now Accepting Submissions for 2018 Holiday Season
11/01/2017
NEW YORK (November 1, 2017) – From November 1–22, 2017, the annual Pier 1 Imports/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest invites children in the United States ages 14 and younger to submit their original...
UNICEF Delivers Lifesaving Supplies to Syria’s East Ghouta as Part of United Nations Humanitarian Convoy
10/31/2017
NEW YORK (October 31, 2017) – UNICEF participated yesterday in a United Nations humanitarian assistance convoy to two towns in the besieged area of East Ghouta, rural Damascus. These towns are Kafr...
An Appeal to End the War on Children in Syria - Is Anyone Listening?
10/31/2017
NEW YORK (October 31, 2017) – “In the past 48 hours, we have received shocking reports and photos of more attacks on children and education facilities in the besieged area of Eastern Ghouta in Rural...
Growing Number of Unaccompanied Refugee and Migrant Children in Greece in Urgent Need of Shelter, Care and Protection
10/27/2017
NEW YORK (October 27, 2017) – Only a third of the nearly 3,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children currently in Greece are receiving proper shelter and care, UNICEF warned today. The children’s...
1.5 Million Vulnerable Children in the Middle East Threatened as Winter Approaches
10/26/2017
NEW YORK (October 26, 2017) – The coming winter is the latest threat to children affected by crises in the Middle East. As UNICEF races to provide warm clothing, winter supplies and blankets before...
Dividend or Disaster: UNICEF’s New Report into Population Growth in Africa
10/26/2017
NEW YORK (October 26, 2017) – The projected expansion in Africa’s child population will necessitate an increase of more than 11 million skilled education and health personnel by 2030, if it is to keep...
At Current Rates of Reduction, It Will Take Over 100 Years to End Child Marriage in West and Central Africa
10/23/2017
NEW YORK (October 23, 2017) – Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage in West and Central Africa, with far-reaching, life-altering consequences for...
Two Months since Outbreak of Violence in Myanmar, Rohingya Refugee Children Still at Acute Risk
10/23/2017
NEW YORK (October 23, 2017) – Nearly two months since Rohingya families began fleeing en masse to Bangladesh, thousands of children and women are still without basic lifesaving services, UNICEF said...
Violence in Myanmar Driving Up to 12,000 Rohingya Refugee Children into Bangladesh Every Week – UNICEF
10/20/2017
NEW YORK (October 20, 2017) – Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August...
7,000 Newborns Die Every Day, Despite Steady Decrease in Under-Five Mortality, New Report Says
10/19/2017
NEW YORK (October 19, 2017) – Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 percent of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN...