Press Releases

NEW YORK (November 5, 2024) - “The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the last remaining in the north, has reportedly been...

NEW YORK (November 5, 2024) — With a commitment to end the debilitating and life-threatening effects on children of lead poisoning, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)...

NEW YORK (November 4, 2024) – The Federal Ministry of Health, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...

NEW YORK (November 4, 2024) — As world leaders, civil society, advocates, survivors, and young people gather this week for the inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against...

NEW YORK (November 2, 2024) – “This has already been a deadly weekend of attacks in North Gaza. In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalia, where strikes...

NEW YORK (November 1, 2024) -  “A third phase of the polio vaccination campaign is set to begin tomorrow in part of the northern Gaza Strip after being postponed from 23 October 2024 due to lack of...

NEW YORK (October 31, 2024) – “The ongoing war in Lebanon is upending children’s lives, and in many cases, inflicting severe physical wounds and deep emotional scars. “According to the Lebanese...

NEW YORK (October 30, 2024) - "UNRWA is the main UN agency providing essential services and protection to Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and is the backbone of the...

NEW YORK (October 28, 2024) – "I am deeply alarmed by the spiraling violence against children and families in Sudan’s Al Jazirah State. Reports of mass killings, widespread sexual violence against...

NEW YORK (October 25, 2024) - " Children are being medically evacuated from Gaza at a rate of fewer than one child per day. If this lethally slow pace continues, it would take more than seven years to...