Press Releases

NEW YORK (February 24, 2021) – “After a year of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 80,700 Ghanaians getting infected with the virus and over 580 lost lives, the path to recovery...

NEW YORK (February 23, 2021) – The lives and futures of more than 3 million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while the world is looking the other way, a...

NEW YORK (February 23, 2021) – UNICEF has sent 100,000 syringes and 1,000 safety boxes for COVID-19 vaccinations to the Maldives by air freight from UNICEF’s humanitarian warehouse in Dubai—part of...

NEW YORK (February 19, 2021) – “UNICEF USA applauds $4 billion in contributions to the COVAX Facility, the vaccines arm of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, from the Biden Administration...

NEW YORK (February 17, 2021) – " Excellencies. Fellow briefers. Secretary Raab — thank you for convening this debate. UNICEF appreciates the UK’s efforts to shine a light on the importance of...

COPENHAGEN / NEW YORK (February 16, 2021) – UNICEF is today launching the Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative. Under this landmark initiative, over 10 leading airlines are signing agreements with...

NEW YORK (February 12, 2021) – The grotesque use of children in armed conflict is a battery of child right violations and has no place in 2021, said UNICEF today. Children are forced to execute and...

SANA’A / ADEN / ROME / NEW YORK / GENEVA (February 12, 2021) – Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations...

ADDIS ABABA / NAIROBI / GENEVA / NEW YORK (February 12, 2021) – As more supplies and emergency personnel reach crisis-affected people in Tigray, an incomplete but troubling picture is emerging of...

NEW YORK (February 11, 2021) – UNICEF announced today the signing of an agreement with Pfizer on behalf of the COVAX Facility for the supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine through 2021...