Press Releases
Race against time to prevent spread of waterborne diseases in hurricane-hit areas as rainy season starts in Haiti – UNICEF
10/08/2016
NEW YORK, (October 8, 2016) – With the start of the rainy season, and as the death toll from Hurricane Matthew continues to rise, UNICEF is sounding the alarm on the threat of waterborne diseases to...
Hurricane Matthew: UNICEF Delivers Lifesaving Humanitarian Supplies to Haiti
10/07/2016
NEW YORK (October 7, 2016) – A chartered cargo aircraft loaded with tons of humanitarian supplies will be hitting the ground in Port-au-Prince in the next few hours. The shipment comes from UNICEF...
Girls Spend 160 Million More Hours than Boys Doing Household Chores Everyday – UNICEF
10/07/2016
NEW YORK (October 7, 2016) – Girls between 5 and 14 years old spend 40 percent more time, or 160 million more hours a day, on unpaid household chores and collecting water and firewood compared to boys...
Half a Million Children Live in Areas Hardest Hit by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti – UNICEF
10/07/2016
NEW YORK (October 7, 2016) – An estimated 500,000 children live in the Grande Anse and Grand South departments in southern Haiti, the areas worst hit by Hurricane Matthew, UNICEF said today. Three...
Joint Press Release: Investing in Early Childhood Development Essential to Helping More Children and Communities Thrive, New Lancet Series Finds
10/05/2016
Washington, D.C. (October 4, 2016) – An estimated 43 percent—249 million—of children under five in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at an elevated risk of poor development due to extreme...
UNICEF Calls for Safety of Schools in Yemen as the New School Year Opens
10/04/2016
NEW YORK (October 4, 2016) – As schools open this week in Yemen, UNICEF urges all parties to the conflict to protect schools. Since the conflict escalated more than 18 months ago, attacks on school...
Children in Aleppo Trapped in “Living Nightmare” – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth
09/28/2016
NEW YORK (September 28, 2016) – At least 96 children have been killed and 223 have been injured in Eastern Aleppo since Friday, UNICEF said. “The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare,”...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on the Attack on the Humanitarian Convoy in Aleppo, Syria
09/20/2016
NEW YORK (September 20, 2016) – “All those with a conscience must condemn the attack on a humanitarian convoy in Aleppo that killed and injured humanitarian workers. “The inter-agency convoy was...
World Leaders Must Invest in Better Data on Children – UNICEF
09/14/2016
NEW YORK (September 14, 2016) – UNICEF is calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in a new analysis that sufficient data is available only for half of the child-related...
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Comes to the Classroom, Offering the Nation’s Children a Lesson in Global Citizenship
09/13/2016
NEW YORK (September 13, 2016) – This fall, cheered on by teachers across the nation, thousands of students will learn positive global citizenship values and gain the power to make a difference when...