Press Releases

NEW YORK (July 12, 2021) – There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has...

NEW YORK (July 12, 2021) – “It’s been 18 months since the COVID-19 outbreak started and education for millions of children is still disrupted. As of today, primary and secondary schools are shuttered...

NEW YORK (July 9, 2021) – More than 1.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived today in Afghanistan. Donated by the United States to COVAX, the 1,484,900 doses were delivered...

NEW YORK (July 9, 2021) – Nearly one-third of all children in Haiti -at least 1.5 million- are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, constrained access to safe water, health and...

NEW YORK (July 8, 2021) – At least 80,000 children under the age of five are currently at risk of severe acute malnutrition across the Central African Republic (CAR) – a 29 percent increase compared...

NEW YORK (July 8, 2021) – A joint report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination...

NEW YORK (July 8, 2021) – UNICEF has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine for all 55 Member States of the African Union...

NEW YORK (July 7, 2021) – “On July 5 th , 150 students were reportedly abducted from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, marking the latest incident in an alarming spate of attacks against children...

NEW YORK (July 7, 2021) – A record 4.5 million children – two out of three – in South Sudan are in desperate need of humanitarian support, UNICEF warned today, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the...

NEW YORK (July 7, 2021) – Six years on, Yemeni children’s education has become one of the greatest casualties of Yemen’s devastating and ongoing conflict, according to a new report published by UNICEF...