Press Releases
As Measles Deaths In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo Top 4,000, UNICEF Rushes Medical Kits To Health Centers And Vaccinates Thousands More Children
10/09/2019
NEW YORK (October 9, 2019 ) – UNICEF is vaccinating thousands more children against measles and rushing life-saving medicines to health centers across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as...
UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund
10/09/2019
NEW YORK (October 9, 2019) – UNICEF will now be able to receive, hold and disburse donations of cryptocurrencies ether and bitcoin, through its newly-established UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund. In a first...
Sulawesi Earthquake One Year On: Over 1 Million Children And Parents Reached With Humanitarian Assistance
09/27/2019
NEW YORK (September 27, 2019 ) – Over 1 million children and family members have been reached with critical humanitarian assistance in the year since a deadly earthquake and tsunami struck the island...
SAP and UNICEF partner to give young people job skills training
09/25/2019
NEW YORK (September 25, 2019 ) – SAP and UNICEF today announced a new global partnership to provide quality education, life skills and job skills training to young people in disadvantaged communities...
As The School Year Starts In Yemen, 2 Million Children Are Out Of School And Another 3.7 Million Are At Risk Of Dropping Out
09/25/2019
NEW YORK (September 25, 2019) – As the new school year starts amid continuing violence in Yemen, 2 million children are out of school, including almost half a million who dropped out since the...
UNICEF Aims To Reach 1.1 Million Children With Winter Assistance In The Middle East And North Africa
09/24/2019
NEW YORK (September 24, 2019) – UNICEF aims to reach 1.1 million children in the Middle East and North Africa to help counter the risk of illness, school absence or severe cold due to the anticipated...
16 children, including Greta Thunberg, file landmark complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
09/23/2019
NEW YORK (September 23, 2019) – Sixteen child petitioners – including Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Villaseñor – from 12 countries around the world today presented a landmark official complaint to the...
Hurricane Dorian: Bahamas Government and UNICEF to bring 10,000 displaced children back to school
09/12/2019
NASSAU/PANAMA/NEW YORK, 12 September 2019 – With the support of UNICEF, the Government of the Bahamas today begins registering approximately 10,000 students displaced by Hurricane Dorian to enroll...
3,758 school backpacks laid at the United Nations show the grave scale of child deaths in conflict in 2018
09/08/2019
NEW YORK (September 8, 2019) – A UNICEF installation to show the devastating scale of child deaths in conflict zones in 2018 was unveiled today at the United Nations in New York. The haunting display...
Humanitarian Plane With 1.5 Tons Of UNICEF Supplies Lands In Hurricane-Hit Bahamas
09/07/2019
NASSAU / NEW YORK (September 7, 2019) – Today UNICEF announced the arrival to Nassau of a plane carrying nearly 1.5 tons of lifesaving supplies that will help provide access to safe water for over 9...