Press Releases
Five-Fold Increase in Number of Refugee and Migrant Children Traveling Alone Since 2010 – UNICEF
05/17/2017
NEW YORK (May 17, 2017) – The global number of refugee and migrant children moving alone has reached a record high, increasing nearly five-fold since 2010, UNICEF said today in a new report. At least...
UNHCR/UNICEF: More than One Million Children Have Fled Escalating Violence in South Sudan
05/08/2017
NEW YORK (May 8, 2017) – More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today. “The...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Meets Child Survivors of Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe
05/07/2017
NEW YORK (May 7, 2017) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra has called for increased awareness and support for child victims of sexual violence. The actress made an emotional visit to Zimbabwe...
UNICEF Statement on Release of Chibok School Girls Abducted by Boko Haram
05/07/2017
NEW YORK (May 7, 2017) – “UNICEF welcomes Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago. “It is heartening to know that...
Refugee and Migrant Children Stranded in European Transit Countries Suffer Psychologically in the Face of Uncertain Future - UNICEF
05/04/2017
NEW YORK (May 4, 2017) – Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkans are at risk of...
Projected Number of Severely Malnourished Somali Children Up 50 Percent
05/02/2017
NEW YORK (May 2, 2017) – The projected number of children who are or will be acutely malnourished has shot up by 50 percent since the beginning of the year to 1.4 million, including over 275,000 who...
UNICEF USA Hails Introduction of Reauthorization of Anti-Trafficking Legislation
04/28/2017
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) – UNICEF USA welcomes the introduction of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act in the House yesterday. The Trafficking...
UNICEF Reaches Almost Half of the World’s Children with Lifesaving Vaccines
04/26/2017
NEW YORK (April 26, 2017) – UNICEF procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to children in nearly 100 countries in 2016, reaching almost half of the world’s children under the age of five. The figures...
UNICEF and WFP: Race against Time to Save Millions of Lives in Yemen
04/25/2017
NEW YORK (April 25, 2017) – The continuing violence in Yemen is fuelling one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly 7 million people not knowing where their next meal will come from and...
In Drought-Hit Somalia, Children Also Face Potentially Deadly Measles Threat
04/25/2017
NEW YORK (April 25, 2017) – Almost 30,000 young children, many of them displaced by a searing drought, are being vaccinated against measles this week in an emergency campaign in Baidoa, a town at the...