Press Releases

During Human Trafficking Awareness Month, actress urges public to help protect children NEW YORK (January 29, 2014) – Actress and UNICEF Ambassador Angie Harmon just returned from a visit to Nicaragua...

UNICEF and partners start vaccination campaign to protect children from diseases NEW YORK (January 27, 2013) – In the wake of the ceasefire signed late last week, UNICEF is warning of a humanitarian...

NEW YORK (January 23, 2014) – UNICEF and its partners have begun to organize a campaign to vaccinate more than 1.6 million children to stop a measles outbreak in Guinea amid a growing number of cases...

NEW YORK ( January 21, 2014) – The first of two UNICEF charter planes, each carrying 35 tons of urgently needed supplies for women and children in South Sudan, landed this morning at Juba...

NEW YORK (January 20, 2014) – Over the past 72 hours, senseless violence has resulted in many deaths and created tension throughout the Central African Republic in the lead-up to today’s vote to...

NEW YORK (January 21, 2014) — The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced today that its Bridge Fund has received a first-of-its-kind commitment from Mariner Investment Group, the global asset manager, to...

NEW YORK (January 17, 2014) – UNICEF today expressed its deep concern about the use of children as combatants in the on-going armed conflict in South Sudan. Under both international and South Sudanese...

NEW YORK (January 17, 2014) – Twenty-three children between the ages of 14 and 17 were released from armed groups in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, on Thursday, with many more...

NEW YORK (January 7, 2013) — UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children, World Vision and other partners today called for governments, aid agencies and members of the public to become champions for the children...

NEW YORK (December 30, 2013) – Attacks against children have sunk to a vicious new low, with at least two children beheaded, and one of them mutilated, in the violence that has gripped Bangui, the...