Press Releases

More than 175,000 children go online for the first time every day, tapping into great opportunities, but facing grave risks

Publication date: February 6, 2018

More than 175,000 children go online for the first time every day – a new child every half second – UNICEF said today. Digital access exposes these children to a wealth of benefits and opportunities, but also to a host of risks and harms, including access to harmful content, sexual exploitation and abuse, cyberbullying, and misuse of their private information, the children’s agency warned.

Three in 10 young people in conflict or disaster-stricken countries are illiterate - UNICEF

Publication date: January 31, 2018

Nearly three in 10 young people aged between 15 and 24 years old – 59 million – living in countries affected by conflict or disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate, UNICEF said today.

UNICEF seeks $3.6 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in catastrophic humanitarian crises

Publication date: January 30, 2018

UNICEF appealed today for $3.6 billion to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to 48 million children living through conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in 51 countries in 2018.

Is the world becoming numb to the killing of children?

Publication date: January 26, 2018

Statement by Fran Equiza, UNICEF Representative in Syria

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Violence in Tanganyika and South Kivu fuels one of the world’s worst displacement crisis for children – UNICEF

Publication date: January 25, 2018

At least 1.3 million people, including more than 800,000 children, have been displaced by inter-ethnic violence and clashes between the regular army, militia and armed groups in the provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNICEF said today. The DRC is now home to one of the largest displacement crises in the world for children.

More action needed to improve security and humanitarian access in Myanmar if Rohingya children are to return safely - UNICEF

Publication date: January 24, 2018

Improved security and unimpeded humanitarian access in Myanmar are essential before Rohingya children can be returned from Bangladesh, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth said today.

Halifax’s Chefs for UNICEF Water for Life Gala announced for April 25

Publication date: January 22, 2018

Nova Scotia’s top chefs come together for 26th annual event in support of world’s most vulnerable children

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore following two-day visit to conflict-ravaged South Sudan

Publication date: January 19, 2018

"I have just spent two days in South Sudan where I saw firsthand how four years of a man-made conflict have left children sick, hungry and on the brink of death."

UN agencies in urgent bid to prevent famine in Kasai

Publication date: January 17, 2018

In a stark warning, three UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) – say time is running out to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Three million children born into war in Yemen

Publication date: January 16, 2018

More than 3 million children were born in Yemen since the escalation in violence in March 2015 according to a UNICEF report. Born into War details how children in Yemen have been scarred by years of violence, displacement, disease, poverty, undernutrition and a lack of access to basic services including water, health care and education.