Press Releases
Refugee and Migrant Children Stranded in European Transit Countries Suffer Psychologically in the Face of Uncertain Future - UNICEF
05/04/2017
NEW YORK (May 4, 2017) – Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkans are at risk of...
Projected Number of Severely Malnourished Somali Children Up 50 Percent
05/02/2017
NEW YORK (May 2, 2017) – The projected number of children who are or will be acutely malnourished has shot up by 50 percent since the beginning of the year to 1.4 million, including over 275,000 who...
UNICEF USA Hails Introduction of Reauthorization of Anti-Trafficking Legislation
04/28/2017
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) – UNICEF USA welcomes the introduction of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act in the House yesterday. The Trafficking...
UNICEF Reaches Almost Half of the World’s Children with Lifesaving Vaccines
04/26/2017
NEW YORK (April 26, 2017) – UNICEF procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to children in nearly 100 countries in 2016, reaching almost half of the world’s children under the age of five. The figures...
UNICEF and WFP: Race against Time to Save Millions of Lives in Yemen
04/25/2017
NEW YORK (April 25, 2017) – The continuing violence in Yemen is fuelling one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly 7 million people not knowing where their next meal will come from and...
In Drought-Hit Somalia, Children Also Face Potentially Deadly Measles Threat
04/25/2017
NEW YORK (April 25, 2017) – Almost 30,000 young children, many of them displaced by a searing drought, are being vaccinated against measles this week in an emergency campaign in Baidoa, a town at the...
More Than 150 Children Estimated to Have Died Taking Central Mediterranean Migration Route This Year - UNICEF
04/21/2017
NEW YORK (April 21, 2017) – According to UNICEF estimates, more than 150 children have died crossing the Central Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy so far this year. Yet the true number of child...
UNICEF USA Invites Americans to Show the World Their Kid Power and Help End Global Malnutrition this May with UNICEF Kid Power
04/20/2017
NEW YORK (April 20, 2017) – UNICEF USA is inviting kids and families in the U.S. to get active and save lives with UNICEF Kid Power this May.Only 1 in 4 American kids get enough physical activity...
Statement by Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, on Reported Child Killings in Syria
04/16/2017
NEW YORK (April 16, 2017) – “After six years of war and human carnage in Syria ... six years of heartbreak for so many Syrian families... there comes a new horror that must break the heart of anyone...
Lake Chad Conflict: Alarming Surge in Number of Children Used in Boko Haram Bomb Attacks This Year – UNICEF
04/12/2017
NEW YORK (April 12, 2017) – The number of children used in ‘suicide’ attacks in the Lake Chad conflict has surged to 27 in the first quarter of 2017, compared to nine over the same period last year...