Press Releases

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where funding cuts are putting half a million children’s futures at risk

Publication date: November 7, 2025

More than 300,000 children risk losing access to education in 2026 with even more cuts to global funding expected

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom pictured with Grade 9 children in Cox's Bazar who are at risk of losing access to education due to global funding cuts.

UNICEF Canada urging more ambition to support children following 2025 federal budget

Publication date: November 4, 2025

1 in 5 Canadian children bullied, lonely yet no new investments in youth mental health Cuts to foreign aid at a time of unprecedented global needs for children

Statement by UNICEF Canada on the 2025 federal budget.

No child safe in Al Fasher

Publication date: October 29, 2025

UNICEF is gravely concerned by the images and reports coming from Al Fasher, in the Darfur region of Sudan.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson travels to South Sudan to meet children in a country under threat from global funding cuts

Publication date: October 27, 2025

Almost 200 nutrition treatment sites have closed across the country due to funding crisis, putting children’s lives at risk

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson meets 20-year-old Alan at the Gredo Youth Centre in Juba, South Sudan.

At least 1.6 million children at risk as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean

Publication date: October 27, 2025

UNICEF and partners have pre-positioned life-saving supplies and stand ready to provide support to the families in affected areas across the region

Over the past decade, approximately 11 million people, including nearly 4 million children, were directly affected each year by natural and human-made hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean, where small island states face heightened vulnerability to increasingly extreme climate events.

Gaza’s ceasefire offers a vital chance for children – it must be seized

Publication date: October 26, 2025

Statement by UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder

“Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis - and children are paying the highest price”

Publication date: October 24, 2025

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing

IOM, UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP urge immediate action to address escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan

Publication date: October 23, 2025

Four United Nations agencies today called for urgent international attention on the crisis in Sudan, to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population. Over 900 days of brutal fighting, widespread violations of human rights, famine, and the breakdown of life-sustaining services have pushed millions to the brink of survival, particularly women and children.

More than 212,000 children at risk of acute watery diarrhoea and other deadly waterborne diseases in earthquake-hit eastern Afghanistan

Publication date: October 16, 2025

One month after a devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks struck eastern Afghanistan, over 212,000 surviving children remain at severe risk of deadly disease outbreaks due to widespread destruction of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, UNICEF warned today.

Launch of the UNICEF Child Alert on Haiti highlights the growing concern of malnutrition in children