Press Releases
Hurricane Matthew One Month On: More than 600,000 Children Still in Need of Aid – UNICEF
11/04/2016
NEW YORK (November 4, 2016) – One month after Hurricane Matthew pummeled Haiti, nearly 600,000 children remain in need of humanitarian assistance, stalked by disease, hunger and malnutrition, UNICEF...
Statement Attributable to Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative in Iraq on the Children of Mosul
11/04/2016
NEW YORK (November 4, 2016) – “An estimated 2,500 children and their families have arrived in the past 24 hours at camps south east of Mosul as Iraqi forces today for the first time entered the city...
Children and Pregnant Women Among Those Lost at Sea in Latest Tragedy on the Mediterranean – UNICEF
11/03/2016
NEW YORK (November 3, 2016) – A number of children and pregnant women were among the 240 people reported to have drowned off the coast of Libya Wednesday attempting to reach European shores. A young...
9,700 Children Displaced Since Start of Mosul Operation – UNICEF
11/03/2016
NEW YORK (November 3, 2016) – 20,700 people have been displaced since the operation to retake Mosul started on October 17. UNICEF estimates that 9,700 of them are children in urgent need of assistance...
Call for Entries: Annual Pier 1 Imports®/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest Now Accepting Submissions for 2017 Holiday Season
11/01/2016
NEW YORK (November 1, 2016) – From November 1–23, the annual Pier 1 Imports/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest invites children in the United States ages 14 and under to submit their original artwork for...
Pollution: 300 million children breathing toxic air - UNICEF report
10/31/2016
NEW YORK (October 31, 2016) – Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution – six or more times higher than international...
UNICEF Calls on Italian Parliament to Pass Bill Providing Support for Record Number of Unaccompanied Refugee and Migrant Children
10/27/2016
NEW YORK (October 27, 2016) – UNICEF is calling on the Italian parliament to urgently pass a historic bill that would strengthen support and protection for the record number of unaccompanied and...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on Multiple Attacks on Schools in Syria
10/27/2016
NEW YORK (October 27, 2016) – “Yesterday, when a school compound in Syria was repeatedly attacked, killing dozens of children and teachers, we thought we had seen the depths of depravity. “Today’s...
145 children released armed groups in South Sudan – UNICEF
10/26/2016
NEW YORK (October 26, 2016) – A total of 145 children were today released by armed groups in South Sudan, UNICEF has announced. This is the largest number of children freed since 2015, when 1,775...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on deadly attacks on schools in Idlib, northwest Syria
10/26/2016
NEW YORK (October 26, 2016) – “Twenty-two children and six teachers were reportedly murdered today when their school compound was repeatedly attacked in Idlib, Syria. “This is a tragedy. It is an...