Press Releases
At Least Five Children And Two Aid Workers Killed In A Renewed Wave Of Violence In North-West Syria
11/05/2020
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...
UNICEF And WHO Sound The Alarm Over 250,000 Children At Risk Of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases In Libya
11/05/2020
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...
Nearly Half A Million Children In Nicaragua At Risk From Hurricane Eta
11/03/2020
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...
UNICEF Statement On One Month Of Fighting In And Beyond Nagorno-Karabakh
10/29/2020
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...
Children In The Poorest Countries Have Lost Nearly Four Months Of Schooling Since Start Of Pandemic – UNESCO, UNICEF And World Bank Report Finds
10/29/2020
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...
VIET NAM: Landslides Caused By Storm Molave Bury At Least 13 Families In Remote District
10/29/2020
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...
UNICEF Statement On Impact Of Storm Molave In Viet Nam
10/28/2020
NEW YORK (October 28, 2020) – Storm Molave, which today battered Viet Nam’s central coastal region, is one of the strongest storms to hit the country in 20 years, according to the country’s...
Malnutrition Surges Among Young Children In Yemen As Conditions Worsen
10/27/2020
NEW YORK (October 27, 2020) – Acute malnutrition rates among children under five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million cases in southern districts, according...
Statement By UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore On School Attacks In Afghanistan And Cameroon
10/24/2020
NEW YORK (October 24, 2020) – “This has been a deadly weekend for schoolchildren in Afghanistan and Cameroon. “Earlier today, an attack outside an educational center in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi area...
UNICEF USA ANNOUNCES SINGER, ACTOR AND ACTIVIST SOFIA CARSON AS NEWEST NATIONAL AMBASSADOR
10/23/2020
NEW YORK (October 23, 2020) – UNICEF USA has appointed actor, singer and activist Sofia Carson as the newest UNICEF Ambassador. The announcement comes at a time where listening to and amplifying the...