Press Releases

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Haiti

Publication date: March 6, 2024

As violence and lawlessness in Haiti reaches a new and terrifying level, the resolve of the international community and local stakeholders to protect and support the Haitian people must be strengthened.

On 18 July 2022 in Les Cayes, Haiti, children play in the rubble of homes destroyed in the 2021 earthquake. The girl in blue lives nearby with her mother, Yolande Felix, and younger sister, Valentine.

Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Publication date: March 3, 2024

The child deaths we feared are here, as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip.

Children walk back to school amidst the rubble on the streets of Jenin, West Bank.

Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours - equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground

Publication date: February 23, 2024

Three-quarters of children and young people aged 14 to 34 recently reported needing emotional or psychological support

Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours – equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground

Ukraine - Frontline children: battling mental trauma, underground

Publication date: February 23, 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

Ukraine - Frontline children: battling mental trauma, underground

Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

Publication date: February 19, 2024

The situation is especially serious in the north, where one in six children under the age of two is acutely malnourished

Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance - UNICEF

Publication date: February 11, 2024

100 days after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal on 3 November 2023, UNICEF is calling for continued support for 68,000 children and their families in the affected areas and appealing for US$14.7 million in funding to help rebuild the lives of the affected children.

On 3 February 2024 at the Shree Jana Bikash Primary School in Aathbiskot Municipality in Rukum West District in western Nepal, views of a Transitional Learning Centre being constructed on the premises with UNICEF support.

Three hundred days of atrocities against the children of Sudan

Publication date: February 9, 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.

A photograph of children in East Madani, Sudan.

Record numbers of children seek life-saving care as Sudan war drives world’s worst displacement crisis

Publication date: February 9, 2024

Without additional resources and humanitarian access, more children could die due to malnutrition and disease than conflict.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Publication date: February 8, 2024

UNICEF is urgently calling on the parties to refrain from military escalation in Rafah Governorate in Gaza where over 600,000 children and their families have been displaced – many of them more than once.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Two-month-old baby the ninth child reportedly killed in Ukraine this year, as attacks intensify – UNICEF

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Statement by Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director for UNICEF Europe and Central Asia