Press Releases

NEW YORK (March 30, 2021) – UNICEF has launched a fund to support low- and middle-income countries access to COVID-19 health supplies, including vital tests, treatments and vaccines. The fund, which...

NEW YORK (March 30, 2021) – “We still do not know the full impact that the deadly militant attack in Palma, northern Mozambique, has had on children, but we fear that it will be brutal. “Palma was...

NEW YORK (March 29, 2021) – The number of children migrating up north through the dangerous Darien rainforest between Colombia and Panama has increased more than fifteen-fold in the last four years...

NEW YORK (March 29, 2021) – “An 11-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, two 13-year-old boys, a 13-year-old girl, three 16-year-old boys and two seventeen-year old boys, all reportedly shot and killed...

NEW YORK (March 29, 2021) – "Council members — this year marks an anniversary no one wanted to see: the 10 th year of the Syria crisis. "Homes, hospitals, schools and water systems destroyed. "An...

NEW YORK (March 26, 2021) – The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education for 1.6 billion children worldwide over the past year. To help measure the ongoing global response, Johns Hopkins University...

NEW YORK (March 26, 2021) – “UNICEF offers its deepest condolences to the families of Rohingya refugees killed and injured by the fire in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as well as to the 50,000 refugees –...

NEW YORK (March 26, 2021) – Total and partial school closures in Latin America and the Caribbean currently leave about 114 million students without face-to-face schooling according to UNICEF’s latest...

NEW YORK (March 24, 2021) – “UNICEF received reports of a 15-year-old boy killed in the Al-Hol camp in an act of violence yesterday. Two weeks ago, another boy, 16 years old, was shot dead. “The...

NEW YORK (March 24, 2021) – "UNICEF is deeply shocked and outraged by the terrible attacks directed against families and children and perpetrated by unidentified armed groups in the villages of...