Press Releases

KAMPALA / NAIROBI / NEW YORK (June 13, 2019) – UNICEF has launched an emergency Ebola response plan in Uganda following the confirmation of the first three cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in the...

NEW YORK (June 11, 2019) – “At least 19 children have reportedly been killed in Sudan and another 49 have been injured since June 3. I am gravely concerned at the impact of the continuing violence and...

Download photos and videos here NEW YORK (June 7, 2019) – Fifty-five tons of UNICEF health supplies have reached Venezuela since the beginning of the year, the United Nations children’s organization...

NEW YORK (June 7, 2019) – A new online database and application designed to better protect children in emergencies is today being launched in Juba by UNICEF, Save the Children and a network of child...

BEIRA / NEW YORK, (MAY 30, 2019) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Mozambique this week, where 1.1 million children remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in the aftermath...

NEW YORK (May 30, 2019) – “Tens of thousands of children in northwest Syria are at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement because of a significant escalation in fighting. Violence has...

NEW YORK (May 26, 2019) – “Seven children between the ages of 4 and 14 were killed on Friday in an attack on the Mawiyah district, in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz. “This attack brings to 27 the...

NEW YORK (May 24, 2019) – Recent reports about the deaths of migrant and refugee children during the immigration and asylum process are deeply upsetting. Every child, no matter where they come from...

“UNICEF condemns the brutal killings of civilians during recent attacks by armed groups on villages in the northwest of the Central African Republic. The attacks left at least 54 people dead. “This...

In Afghanistan, the nutritional situation of children is alarming. Among the 2 million children under the age of five years who are suffering from acute malnutrition, 600,000 children are currently...