Press Releases

NEW YORK (July 31, 2019) – “Tomorrow, August 1, marks one year since the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in North Kivu province...

NEW YORK / JUBA (July 29, 2019) — Crucial information on how to protect oneself from contracting Ebola saves lives. Since January 2019, UNICEF and its partners have engaged more than 3 million people...

NEW YORK (July 24, 2019) – Nearly 9 million people across Yemen have been reached with emergency cash assistance in the fifth payment cycle by UNICEF to help meet their urgent needs as the conflict in...

COPHENHAGEN / NEW YORK (July 24, 2019) – In 2018, UNICEF procured $3.486 billion worth of goods and services to help children in 150 countries live better lives around the world. Vaccines, clothes...

AMMAN / NEW YORK (July 20, 2019) – “Public services, critical for children, have come under attack in the past weeks as a result of fighting in northwest Syria. Part of that sad reality are repeated...

NEW YORK (July 17, 2019) – Today, UNICEF USA’s Chairman of the Board Peter Lamm and President and CEO Caryl Stern jointly announced Stern’s decision not to serve an additional term as President and...

NEW YORK (July, 16 2019) – I returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday. While I was there, I spent 10 days in North Kivu and Ituri, the two provinces affected by Ebola, and...

NEW YORK (July 12, 2019) – “UNICEF is saddened and shocked at the killing of three children as a result of an attack in the border town of Afrin, north of Syria yesterday. “This attack comes as...

ITURI / DAKAR / GENEVA / NEW YORK (July 11, 2019) – Health workers are urgently rolling out a complex measles vaccination campaign targeting 67,000 children in Ituri, northeast DR Congo, a region...

COX’S BAZAR / NEW YORK (July 9, 2019) – Thousands of children and families living in the Rohingya refugee camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar in south-eastern Bangladesh are at risk from...