Press Releases
Violence in Myanmar Driving Up to 12,000 Rohingya Refugee Children into Bangladesh Every Week – UNICEF
10/20/2017
NEW YORK (October 20, 2017) – Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August...
7,000 Newborns Die Every Day, Despite Steady Decrease in Under-Five Mortality, New Report Says
10/19/2017
NEW YORK (October 19, 2017) – Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 percent of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN...
South Sudan Conflict: 5,000 Children Reunited with Family by Save the Children, UNICEF and Partners
10/18/2017
NEW YORK ( October 18 , 201 7 ) – Since conflict broke out in South Sudan in 2013, Save the Children, UNICEF and partners have successfully reunited more than 5,000 children with their families. The 5...
Not a New School Year! Endless Violence Shutters Schools, Teachers Unpaid for a Year, Threatening Education for 4.5 Million Children in Yemen
10/18/2017
NEW YORK (October 18, 2017) – “More than two and a half years of renewed conflict in Yemen have once again put the education of 4.5 million children on the line, adding to the long list of bitter...
Muzoon Almellehan Returns to Jordan to Meet Syrian Refugees Striving to Get an Education
10/16/2017
NEW YORK (October 16, 2017) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Muzoon Almellehan traveled to Jordan to meet children who, like her, fled the Syria conflict and are now determined to go to school despite...
UNICEF USA and FRSH Launch Alexa Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Skill
10/16/2017
NEW YORK, NY (October 16, 2017) – UNICEF USA and Fresh Digital Group (FRSH) today launched a new Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Alexa skill for Amazon Echo devices to encourage kids and families to...
Violence in Al-Mayadin District, Deir ez-Zor, Reportedly Destroys Cold Room and Vaccines
10/12/2017
NEW YORK ( October 12 , 201 7 ) – “ UNICEF has received reports that ongoing violence in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria has destroyed a UNICEF-supported vaccine cold room in al- Mayadin district, with...
World’s Second Largest Oral Cholera Vaccination Campaign Kicks Off at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh
10/10/2017
NEW YORK (October 10, 2017) – A massive cholera immunization campaign started today near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening...
One Year After Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s Children Still Vulnerable to Natural Disasters
10/04/2017
NEW YORK (October 4, 2017) – One year after Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 hurricane, devastated the Southwest of Haiti, causing loss of life and considerable damage, children and adolescents in the...
Joint Statement by Emergency Relief Coordinator and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock and UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake
10/04/2017
NEW YORK (October 4, 2017) – We leave Bangladesh moved by the stories of suffering that we heard from refugees fleeing the violence in Myanmar – and all the more determined that the United Nations do...