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UNICEF Airlifts Urgent Supplies to Help those Displaced in South Sudan
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...
Central African Republic’s Children Urgently Need Healing, Hope and Funding, says UNICEF Chief Anthony Lake
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...
UNICEF Bridge Fund Receives Long-term Financial Commitment from Mariner Investment Group
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...
Child Combatants Reported in South Sudan Conflict
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...
23 Children Released from Armed Groups in Central African Republic
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...
Global Champions and $1 Billion Investment Needed to Prevent a Lost Generation of Syrian Children
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...
Children Brutalized in Central African Republic, says UNICEF
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...
South Sudan’s Violence Puts Children in Peril
JUBA (December 24, 2013) – As the violence in South Sudan escalates and tens of thousands of civilians take refuge in UN compounds around the country, children are in grave danger, says UNICEF. “An...
Devastation of Typhoon Haiyan still Haunts Children
Children need support, education to overcome trauma, build resilience NEW YORK (December 17, 2013) – UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, after a four day visit to the Philippines, said that he was...
UNICEF Statement on the Reported Killing of Children in Aleppo
Attributable to Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa AMMAN, Jordan (December 16, 2013) – UNICEF is horrified by reports of a bombing raid in Aleppo that may...