Press Releases

NEW YORK (February 20, 2020) – Nearly 3 million people, more than half children in Niger are in need of humanitarian assistance, amid the risks posed by insecurity, malnutrition, recurrent disease...

NEW YORK (February 18, 2020) – More than 500,000 children have been displaced by intense violence in northwest Syria since December 1, 2019, with tens of thousands of children and their families now...

NEW YORK (February 17, 2020) – UNICEF urgently needs $42.3 million to scale up its response to the Covid-19 virus outbreak and support global efforts to contain it. “This is a race against time,” said...

DURHAM / NEW YORK (February 13, 2020) – UNICEF and Duke University today announced the selection of the first cohort of social entrepreneurs participating in the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator...

NEW YORK (February 6, 2020) – Critical programs providing support for children released from armed forces and groups in South Sudan may be forced to end next month if urgently needed funds are not...

NEW YORK (February 6, 2020) – Around 1 in 4 girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), or 52 million FGM survivors worldwide, were cut by health personnel, according to a new...

NEW YORK (February 6, 2020) – “One year since a peace agreement was signed between the Central African Government and other parties to the conflict, the lives of millions of children across the...

NEW YORK (January 29, 2020) – A UNICEF shipment of respiratory masks and protective suits for health workers landed in Shanghai, China, today to support China’s response to the novel coronavirus (2019...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (January 28, 2020) - UNICEF USA welcomes today’s passage of H.R. 2153, the Keeping Girls in School Act, by the House of Representatives. Too often, girls are kept out of school due...

NEW YORK (January 23, 2020) – Today, UNICEF USA’s Board of Directors announced that Michael J. Nyenhuis has been selected as the organization’s new president and CEO. The announcement follows the...