Press Releases
COVID-19: Global Ceasefire Would Be A Game Changer For 250 Million Children Living In Conflict-Affected Areas
04/17/2020
NEW YORK (April 17, 2020) – “Today there are 250 million children around the world living in areas under conflict. Each of these children needs warring parties to heed the call of the UN Secretary...
UN Agencies Welcome First Relocation Of Unaccompanied Children From Greece
04/15/2020
NEW YORK (April 15, 2020) – IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund today welcomed the relocation of 12 unaccompanied asylum...
Children At Increased Risk Of Harm Online During Global COVID-19 Pandemic - UNICEF
04/15/2020
NEW YORK (April 15, 2020) – Millions of children are at increased risk of harm as their lives move increasingly online during lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF and partners said today. “The...
Children In Detention Are At Heightened Risk Of Contracting COVID-19 And Should Be Released
04/13/2020
NEW YORK (April 13, 2020) – “Hundreds of thousands of children currently detained in countries around the world are at grave risk of contracting COVID-19. “Many are being held in confined and...
Don’t Let Children Be The Hidden Victims Of COVID-19 Pandemic—UNICEF
04/09/2020
NEW YORK (April 9, 2020) – “The world is currently united in a shared struggle against an invisible enemy. But while our eyes are firmly focused on how to avoid or treat COVID-19, the serious...
UNICEF: Urgent need to secure learning for children across South Asia
04/06/2020
KATHMANDU / NEW YORK (April 6, 2020) – Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the region had a chronic education crisis with 95 million children of school age being out of school. With the current COVID-19...
WHO and UNICEF to partner on pandemic response through COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
04/03/2020
NEW YORK / GENEVA / WASHINGTON D.C. (April 3, 2020) – The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF today announced an agreement to work together on COVID-19 response, through the historic COVID-19...
COVID-19 Pandemic Could Devastate Refugee, Migrant And Internally Displaced Populations Without Urgent International Action
04/01/2020
NEW YORK (April 1, 2020) – “COVID-19 will almost certainly gain a foothold in refugee camps, crowded reception centers or detention facilities holding migrant families. Given how quickly the virus is...
Children In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo At Risk From Killer Measles, Cholera Epidemics
03/31/2020
NEW YORK (March 31, 2020) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s battered healthcare system needs urgent support as it struggles with measles and cholera epidemics that kill thousands of...
Greater Support Needed For Working Families As COVID-19 Takes Hold – UNICEF And ILO
03/30/2020
NEW YORK (March 30, 2020) – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its exponential growth, it is essential to support working families to minimize negative consequences for children, UNICEF and ILO said...