Press Releases

Statement by UNICEF Canada on the 2024 Federal Budget

Publication date: April 16, 2024

Budget 2024 takes historic steps to address child poverty, yet more progress is needed to reach every child

An entire generation of children in Sudan faces a catastrophe as the war enters its second year

Publication date: April 15, 2024

Continued brutal hostilities and potential famine creating ominous conditions for tragic loss of children’s lives

11-year-old Amna with her peers at the UNICEF supported Alshargia safe learning space or Makanna in Kassala state, Sudan.

Three-fold increase in civilian casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Myanmar’s escalating conflict

Publication date: April 4, 2024

Over 20 per cent of victims are children, according to UNICEF

14-year-old Paing, from Kayah State, stepped on a landmine while searching for his family’s injured cow at a neighborhood farm in eastern Myanmar. His lost his right leg, and his hands & other leg were badly injured.

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on Children and Armed Conflict

Publication date: April 3, 2024

As delivered

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Ted Chaiban having a conversation with the Governor of Marsabit County and UNICEF Kenya Country Representative

Armed violence deepening malnutrition crisis for children in Haiti

Publication date: March 26, 2024

Deadly malnutrition in the country amplified by escalating insecurity, blocked roads, and a crumbling health system pushing children to ‘the brink’, UNICEF warns

A boy poses for a portrait during an interview with the beneficiaries of the clean water program run by UNICEF in Deye Morn, Jeremie, Haiti, Thursday, March 23, 2023.

9 years into the conflict in Yemen, millions of children are malnourished and stunted

Publication date: March 26, 2024

More than half of the population needs lifesaving support, with malnutrition taking a particularly heavy toll on children.

The beneficiary Abdulkarim Mohammed Saleh, one of the infants who were suffers of malnutrition and be treated by the UNICEF project in Alsari Village, Ibb Governorate, Yemen.

UNICEF and UNFPA alarmed by proposed repeal of law banning FGM in The Gambia

Publication date: March 22, 2024

Joint statement by UNICEF Representative in The Gambia, Nafisa Binte Shafique, and UNFPA Representative in The Gambia, Ndeye Rose Sarr

UNICEF and UNFPA alarmed by proposed repeal of law banning FGM in The Gambia

Explosion injures four children in Minova, UNICEF fears massive rise in displacement in eastern DR Congo will expose children to increased violence

Publication date: March 22, 2024

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 22 March 2024 – A major upsurge in violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has seen at least 400,000 people displaced in North Kivu since the beginning of the year risks exposing children to further violence unless their protection can be reinforced.

Explosion injures four children in Minova, UNICEF fears massive rise in displacement in eastern DR Congo will expose children to increased violence

Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water, soap and toilets, and shortage of cholera vaccine

Publication date: March 20, 2024

The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision calls for urgent fast-tracking of life-saving measures.

After 13 years of conflict in Syria, more children than ever in need of humanitarian assistance and a chance– UNICEF

Publication date: March 15, 2024

Prolonged exposure to conflict and deprivation takes a devastating long-term physical and mental toll on a generation of children.