Press Releases

• United Nations humanitarian convoy to Rukban: UNICEF delivers lifesaving vaccines, medicines and nutritional supplies for 50,000 people

  Publication Date: 2018-11-09

  UNICEF, with United Nations partners and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, concluded a six-day humanitarian aid convoy to Rukban camp in southeast Syria near the Jordanian border. This is the first convoy to the camp from within Syria, where nearly 50,000 people live, the majority of whom are women and children. The last aid delivery to the area was in January from Jordan. Read more »

• Children traveling with migrant caravan in Mexico at risk of psychosocial distress – UNICEF

  Publication Date: 2018-11-07

  Many children traveling with the migrant caravan in Mexico are showing signs of anguish and psychosocial distress, according to UNICEF staff on the ground. Read more »

• Yemen: Children in Hudaydah hospital at imminent risk of death

  Publication Date: 2018-11-06

  Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore "Intense fighting in the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah is now dangerously close to Al Thawra hospital - putting the lives of 59 children, including 25 in the intensive care unit, at imminent risk of death." Read more »

• Public education is a strong equalizing force in Canadian society, UNICEF report says

  Publication Date: 2018-10-30

  A new UNICEF report released today measures levels of educational inequality in 38 rich countries along different stages of schooling. Findings show Canada’s education system is among the most equitable in the rich world. However, income inequality and its side effects may stretch the education gap wider for some children in Canada. Read more »

• Indonesia: One month on from the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami disaster, thousands of children still homeless, out-of-school and in need of humanitarian support

  Publication Date: 2018-10-26

  Almost a month after a deadly earthquake and tsunami struck Palu and the surrounding areas of the northwestern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia, an estimated 375,000 children remain in need of lifesaving supplies and services. Read more »

• An estimated 2,300 children traveling with migrant caravan in Mexico need protection and essential services – UNICEF

  Publication Date: 2018-10-26

  An estimated 2,300 children traveling with the migrant caravan now in southern Mexico need protection and access to essential services like healthcare, clean water and adequate sanitation – UNICEF warned today. Read more »

• In Yemen, millions of children could soon be without food or water as economic crisis deepens and Hudaydah violence drags on

  Publication Date: 2018-10-18

  Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore Read more »

• Indonesia: UNICEF announces arrival of education material for Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami affected communities

  Publication Date: 2018-10-16

  Today UNICEF announced the arrival of 30 tonnes of emergency education materials including 65 tents (for temporary classrooms) from its supply base in Dubai in direct support to the Ministry of Education and Culture’s earthquake and tsunami response in Sulawesi. Read more »

• 833 children released from armed group in Northeast Nigeria

  Publication Date: 2018-10-12

  UNICEF welcomes the release of 833 children from the ranks of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, as part of its commitment to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children. Read more »

• 80 per cent of school children returned to school in Ebola-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Publication Date: 2018-10-12

  One month after the beginning of the school year, 80 per cent of school-aged children have returned to school in Beni and Mabalako health zones, the two epicentres of the current Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More than half of these children are girls. Read more »