Press Releases

NEW YORK (October 28, 2021) – “Without action now, the world could face a serious shortage of COVID vaccine syringes by the end of 2022, with potentially dire consequences for the global effort to...

NEW YORK (October 27, 2021) – G20 countries have received 15 times more COVID-19 vaccine doses per capita than countries in sub-Saharan Africa*, according to a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by...

NEW YORK (October 19, 2021) – UNICEF has just delivered nearly 40 tons of medical supplies, including kits and medicines for acute watery diarrhea (AWD), to Kabul to treat the rising number of cases...

NEW YORK (October 18, 2021) – WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan. The vaccination campaign...

NEW YORK (October 15, 2021) - "Afghanistan is a country in deep crisis, and those least responsible – the country’s children – are paying the heaviest price. "Even before the Taliban takeover, at...

NEW YORK / PANAMA CITY (October 11, 2021) - The number of migrant children who cross the Darien Gap on foot has hit an all-time high, UNICEF warned today. The Darien Gap, a jungle that separates...

NEW YORK (October 10, 2021) – Nearly 170 Haitian children arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday with their parents after being expelled from Cuba mainly and the U.S., according to UNICEF. Most of the...

NEW YORK (October 8th, 2021) – UNICEF USA has appointed professional basketball player Jeremy Lin as the newest UNICEF Ambassador. The announcement, in advance of World Mental Health Day, teams Jeremy...

NEW YORK (October 7, 2021) - Wonderama wants you to “add some meaning to your Halloween-ing” and is proud to present the “Biggest Halloween Parade in History,” taking place in New York City’s Times...

NEW YORK (October 5, 2021) – Over a month after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, about 70 percent of all schools in the Southwestern part of the country are still either damaged or destroyed...