Press Releases

Flash floods in Afghanistan posing urgent and persistent threat to children - UNICEF

Publication date: June 3, 2024

UNICEF calls for increased investment in disaster preparedness and climate resilience as the recent floods provide a grave forewarning of potential future climate hazards.

On the 28th May 2024, 9 year old Farzan is photographed in the ruins of his house in Chaghcharan district, Ghor province in western Afghanistan.

Violence drives Haiti’s children into armed groups; up to half of all members are now children – UNICEF

Publication date: May 31, 2024

Children are experiencing a ‘vicious cycle of suffering’ as violence continues to spike

UNICEF Representative Bruno Maes visited the displacement sites of Delmas 18, where more than 3,150 people, the majority of them women and children, were recently displaced due to a new wave of armed violence.

No time to lose as famine stalks millions in Sudan amid intense fighting and access denials

Publication date: May 31, 2024

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee

On 3 February 2024, children collect water at a UNICEF borehole inside Adré refugee settlement in Chad.

UNICEF scaling up Papua New Guinea landslide response

Publication date: May 28, 2024

More than 40% of those affected under the age of 16

UNICEF scaling up Papua New Guinea landslide response

3.2 million children are at risk as Cyclone Remal hits hard in the coastal areas of Bangladesh

Publication date: May 28, 2024

Statement attributable to Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Representative to Bangladesh

Inhabitants from the village of Panjupara are walking towards the shelter with their children and valuable household items during the rainfall in Kuakata, ahead of cyclone Remal's landfall in Bangladesh on May 26, 2024.

Violence sending shocks around Haiti’s collapsing health system

Publication date: May 22, 2024

Armed groups in the capital have strangled supply chains, putting millions of children at risk of disease and malnutrition.

An image of mothers and children at La Paix University Hospital, where hundreds of mothers brought their children for screening and treatment of malnutrition.

Child migration through the Darien Gap up 40 per cent so far this year

Publication date: May 15, 2024

UNICEF estimates 160,000 children could cross the route this year, up 34 per cent from 113,000 in 2023

On 5 February 2020, Romeu Mauricio and his son, Jetfro, 3, cross through the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama.

Nearly 2,000 children killed or injured since the escalation of war in Ukraine

Publication date: May 13, 2024

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

October 29, 2023, Izium, Kharkivska oblast, Ukraine. Maria (4) is looking through the window of her house.

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban concludes visit to Eastern DR Congo, emphasizes humanitarian situation now at a tipping point

Publication date: May 13, 2024

UNICEF official highlights the growing concerns for safeguarding children’s rights and protection of civilians amidst worsening humanitarian crisis and calls for urgent action to reinforce diplomatic and long-term solutions to eastern DR Congo.

Nehema holds her daughter Queen, aged 2, after the girl's consultation at the mobile clinic set up by UNICEF and the Red Cross at the Lushagala site for displaced people, in North Kivu province, DR Congo, on 20 February 2024.

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.