Press Releases

45,000 first graders unable to start the new school year in the Gaza Strip: UNICEF

Publication date: September 10, 2024

Lack of access to education is impacting children’s mental health, safety and development and risking their future prospects.

A tragic end to the first week of school for Ukraine’s children

Publication date: September 6, 2024

Statement by John Marks, UNICEF Representative a.i. in Ukraine

A tragic end to the first week of school for Ukraine’s children

'We cannot stand by and watch another of Europe’s shores become a burial ground for children'

Publication date: September 4, 2024

Statement by UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe Regina De Dominicis

UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with Africa CDC, Gavi and WHO

Publication date: August 31, 2024

UNICEF today announced that it has issued an emergency tender for the procurement of mpox vaccines.

UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with Africa CDC, Gavi and WHO

Two million children at risk as worst floods in three decades lash through eastern Bangladesh - UNICEF

Publication date: August 30, 2024

UNICEF calls for US$35 million for life-saving supplies as thousands of people and children remain stranded without food or emergency relief supplies

People travelling through the flood water on a make-shift raft, in search of shelter, in Feni.

Seven years after forced mass displacement of Rohingya from Myanmar, deadly attacks on children continue in Rakhine State

Publication date: August 25, 2024

Seven years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, conflict continues to intensify in Rakhine State.

Noor Karima, 10, lives in Camp 24 in the Leda Rohingya refugee camps in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, and studies in fourth grade at the learning centre. She and her other friends are upset because their classes are close due to Cyclone Mocha.

Mpox outbreak raises alarm in Eastern and Southern Africa as cases increase among children – UNICEF

Publication date: August 22, 2024

Concerns over new public health emergency rise as communities grapple with other ongoing crises.

Mpox outbreak raises alarm in Eastern and Southern Africa as cases increase among children – UNICEF

Acute malnutrition surges in Government of Yemen-controlled areas with extremely critical conditions reported in West Coast areas

Publication date: August 18, 2024

Diseases, high food insecurity, and limited access to safe drinking water are driving up acute malnutrition among vulnerable children

Acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing in Government of Yemen (GoY)-controlled areas, with the West Coast experiencing “extremely critical” levels for the first time, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Working Group in Yemen said today.

Humanitarian pauses vital for critical polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip

Publication date: August 16, 2024

WHO and UNICEF request all parties to the conflict to implement humanitarian pauses in the Gaza Strip for seven days to allow for two rounds of vaccination campaigns to take place. These pauses in fighting would allow children and families to safely reach health facilities and community outreach workers to get to children who cannot access health facilities for polio vaccination. Without the humanitarian pauses, the delivery of the campaign will not be possible.

Children at significant risk from surging mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - UNICEF