Press Releases

Statement by UNICEF Afghanistan on the devastating flash floods in northeast of Afghanistan

Publication date: May 12, 2024

Flash floods in northeastern Afghanistan have reportedly killed at least 240 people, including 51 children, with many more injured.

Statement by UNICEF Afghanistan on the devastating flash floods in northeast of Afghanistan

Almost 1 Million People in Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, and Somalia Affected as Unprecedented Heavy Rains Continue to Wreak Havoc in Eastern Africa

Publication date: May 9, 2024

UNICEF and other humanitarian agencies are stepping up life-saving emergency relief to children and affected communities.

Almost 1 Million People in Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, and Somalia Affected as Unprecedented Heavy Rains Continue to Wreak Havoc in Eastern Africa

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on military operations and border closures in Rafah, Gaza

Publication date: May 9, 2024

The humanitarian response of UNICEF and our partners — and thus the lives of all the children and their families in the Gaza Strip who depend on it — requires fuel.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on military operations and border closures in Rafah, Gaza

There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah, warns UNICEF

Publication date: May 6, 2024

With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected

Children walk through the tents in the UK-FCDO supported camp in Rafah, southern the Gaza Strip.

An attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children, warns UNICEF

Publication date: May 3, 2024

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on situation in Darfur, Sudan

An attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children, warns UNICEF

UNHCR and UNICEF condemn the bombardment of displacement camps in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Publication date: May 3, 2024

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) strongly condemn the bombing today of three sites for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Lac Vert, Lushagala, and Mugunga neighbourhoods of Goma, North Kivu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Displaced children on their way to school at the Lushagala IDP site in North Kivu province, DR Congo on 11 September 2023. UNICEF and its partners have set up temporary learning spaces in the site to allow displaced children to continue their learning.

Geneva Palais briefing note: Caught in the Crossfire – Lebanon’s children under fire

Publication date: April 30, 2024

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

UNICEF is distributing winter clothes and school kits to displaced families in South Lebanon.

Children in Lebanon pay heavy price amid intensifying conflict in the south and compounding national crises

Publication date: April 30, 2024

75 per cent of children in Lebanon at risk of poverty, as multiple overlapping crises push families closer to the brink.

Aya, 4 years old. UNICEF is distributing winter clothes and school kits to displaced families in South Lebanon.

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

Publication date: April 24, 2024

WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launch “Humanly Possible” campaign to scale up vaccination programs around the world during World Immunization Week 2024

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

UNICEF calls for urgent action to save Pakistan’s children on the frontlines of climate change

Publication date: April 22, 2024

On Earth Day, Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, on the damaging impact of climate change and pollution on children