Press Releases
Immunization Drive Targets 3 Million Children in Ebola-hit Countries
NEW YORK (April 24, 2015) – For the first time since the start of the Ebola outbreak, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are conducting major nationwide immunization campaigns to protect millions of...
UNICEF: Nearly 8 Million Children in Sudan to be Immunized Against Measles Following Deadly Outbreak
NEW YORK (April 23, 2015) – Following one of the worst measles outbreaks in Sudan’s recent history, the Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF, the Measles and Rubella Initiative (M&RI) and...
UNICEF to Support Scholas, Pope Francis’ Initiative to Connect, Educate and Inspire adolescents
NEW YORK (April 21, 2015) – His Holiness Pope Francis and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake met today in Rome to launch a new partnership that will provide more disadvantaged adolescents with the...
Step Up Action Before More Tragedies Unfold in the Mediterranean
NEW YORK (April 21, 2015) – “Reports of tragedies on the Mediterranean Sea - leaving hundreds of people, including children, dead or missing – are becoming all too frequent and the human cost all too...
Statement by Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, on attack in Garowe, Somalia
NEW YORK (April 20, 2015) – “The horrific attack on our UNICEF colleagues today in northern Somalia is an assault not only on them but on the people they served. Our immediate thoughts are with the...
Helping Keep Classrooms Safe as Schools Re-open in Sierra Leone
NEW YORK (April 14, 2015) – As around 1.8 million children in Sierra Leone prepare to return to school this week after an eight month break due to Ebola, the Government of Sierra Leone, UNICEF and...
Despite Huge Challenges in Access UNICEF Delivers Much Needed Supplies to North Eastern Syria
NEW YORK (April 14, 2015) – UNICEF completed the delivery of 43 trucks of much needed humanitarian supplies to Qamishli, north east of Syria. The trucks passed through the Nusyabin crossing point in...
UNICEF: 800,000 Children Forced to Flee Violence in Nigeria and Region
NEW YORK (April 13, 2015) – Around 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in northeast Nigeria between Boko Haram, military forces and civilian self-defence...
MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR CHILDREN BEING UNLOADED NOW AT SANA’A AIRPORT
NEW YORK (April 10, 2015) – A first airlift of urgent medical and other supplies from UNICEF is being unloaded now on the tarmac at Sana’a International Airport, as the conflict in Yemen continues to...
UNICEF: Increasing Violence in Yemen Taking Intolerable Toll on Children
NEW YORK (April 6, 2015) – With conflict escalating in many parts of Yemen, children continue to be killed, injured, displaced and put at increasing risk from disease, UNICEF said today. At least 74...