Press Releases

NEW YORK /GENEVA (November 23, 2021) - "West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited and used by armed forces and armed groups. This amounts to more than 42,000...

NEW YORK (November 12, 2021) – “I am deeply concerned by reports that child marriage in Afghanistan is on the rise. “We have received credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20...

NEW YORK (November 11, 2021) – While reported measles cases have fallen compared to previous years, progress toward measles elimination continues to decline and the risk of outbreaks is mounting...

NEW YORK (October 28, 2021) – At least 200 million schoolchildren live in 31 low- and middle-income countries that remain unprepared to deploy remote learning in future emergency school closures...

NEW YORK (October 28, 2021) – “Without action now, the world could face a serious shortage of COVID vaccine syringes by the end of 2022, with potentially dire consequences for the global effort to...

NEW YORK (October 27, 2021) – G20 countries have received 15 times more COVID-19 vaccine doses per capita than countries in sub-Saharan Africa*, according to a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by...

NEW YORK (October 19, 2021) – UNICEF has just delivered nearly 40 tons of medical supplies, including kits and medicines for acute watery diarrhea (AWD), to Kabul to treat the rising number of cases...

NEW YORK (October 18, 2021) – WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan. The vaccination campaign...

NEW YORK (October 15, 2021) - "Afghanistan is a country in deep crisis, and those least responsible – the country’s children – are paying the heaviest price. "Even before the Taliban takeover, at...

NEW YORK / PANAMA CITY (October 11, 2021) - The number of migrant children who cross the Darien Gap on foot has hit an all-time high, UNICEF warned today. The Darien Gap, a jungle that separates...