Press Releases

Briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Publication date: April 22, 2024

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

In the heart of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, escalating violence has become a grim reality. In less than two weeks, this violence has led to the displacement of 2,500 people, with most of them being women and children.

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

Children seen on the street in the inundated region of Geokaloi Village in the Southern Pakistani province of Sindh.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East

Publication date: April 16, 2024

“Children do not start wars, and they cannot end them, but they always pay the highest price," says Executive Director Catherine Russell.

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

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.

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.

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