Press Releases

Over 6 million children at risk as deadly floods lash across South Asia

Publication date: July 29, 2024

Statement by Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, urges countries to safeguard children as torrential rain predicted in coming weeks

A group of people, including women and children, walk with water containers on their heads along a narrow, muddy path flanked by water in a rural setting.

Hunger numbers stubbornly high for three consecutive years as global crises deepen: UN report

Publication date: July 24, 2024

1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa

Israa eats a piece of bread in Khan Younis city.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in the Gaza Strip

Publication date: July 24, 2024

With each passing week, families face new horrors in the Gaza Strip. The devastating attacks on schools and internally displaced sites continue, reportedly killing hundreds more Palestinians, many of them women and children, and leaving already overwhelmed hospitals buckling under the strain.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in the Gaza Strip

Child casualties in the West Bank skyrocket in the past nine months – UNICEF

Publication date: July 22, 2024

On average, one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023, a nearly two-and-a-half-fold increase from the previous nine months

Child casualties in the West Bank skyrocket in the past nine months

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell following her trip to Vanuatu and Fiji

Publication date: July 19, 2024

It is time for decision-makers to fully commit to action and for child-sensitive climate finance to be radically increased. Governments can leave the best possible legacy by investing in the bold, child-focused climate action that children and future generations so desperately need.

Global childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023 leaving many without life-saving protection

Publication date: July 15, 2024

New data reveal nearly 3 in 4 infants live in countries where low vaccine coverage driving measles outbreaks

Children in Kiribati are undergoing routine vaccinations, following the introduction of life-saving vaccines in the Pacific through a partnership between Rotary International and UNICEF.

The Gambia’s decision to uphold ban on FGM critical win for girls’ and women’s rights

Publication date: July 15, 2024

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, UNFPA Executive Director, Natalia Kanem, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UN Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk

The Gambia’s decision to uphold ban on FGM critical win for girls’ and women’s rights

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on deadly strikes in Ukraine

Publication date: July 8, 2024

I am horrified by the news out of Ukraine today that at least 150 people have reportedly been killed or injured, and a children’s hospital severely damaged in Kyiv, during a wave of deadly missile strikes across the country

On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, a child sits on a bench and cries as rescuers, hospital staff and volunteers clear rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre.

One child displaced every minute in Haiti as armed violence persists – UNICEF

Publication date: July 3, 2024

Over 300,000 children now internally displaced in the country, a 60 per cent increase since March

One child displaced every minute in Haiti as armed violence persists – UNICEF

At least 3 million children at risk as Hurricane Beryl hits the Caribbean