Press Releases

NEW YORK (November 9, 2020) – There has been an alarming spike in attacks on schools and education centers in the North- and South-West of Cameroon, UNICEF said today. Since the resumption of the...

NEW YORK (November 9, 2020) – More than seven months into the pandemic, COVID-19 is putting education on hold for more than 137 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean . This is according...

NEW YORK (November 6, 2020) – UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an urgent call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt...

NEW YORK (November 6, 2020) – More than 1.5 million children are at risk due to the damage brought by Tropical Storm Eta as it passes through Honduras, UNICEF said today. “This is the worst storm...

NEW YORK (November 5, 2020) – “In the last week, at least five children were reported killed in north-west Syria, including four in the past two days alone. Four-year-old Rimas was killed while on her...

NEW YORK (November 5, 2020) – UNICEF and WHO are extremely concerned over severe shortages of critical vaccines in Libya that threaten the health of the country’s children. Over the past 7 months...

NEW YORK (November 3, 2020) – Hurricane Eta hit Nicaragua early Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm, potentially impacting 1,227,000 people, including nearly 500,000 children (estimation based on...

NEW YORK (October 29, 2020) – Ten-month old Narin; one-year-old Madina. Aysu, 8; Viktoria, 9; Shahriyar, 13; Artur, 13; Farid, 14; Fidan, 15; Nigar, 15; Orkhan, 16. These are the names and ages of 10...

NEW YORK (October 29, 2020) – Schoolchildren in low-and lower-middle-income countries have already lost nearly four months of schooling since the start of the pandemic, compared to six weeks of loss...

NEW YORK (October 29, 2020) – Landslides in remote Nam Tra My district in Quang Nam province buried at least 13 families and 53 people are feared dead, as search and rescue operations continue. The...