Press Releases

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visits Brazil to highlight the impact of poverty and climate change on children

Publication date: August 31, 2023

The Executive Director’s visit to Sao Paulo, Recife and Brasilia highlight the more than half of Brazil’s children living in poverty, with many more vulnerable to climate and environmental risks.

On 30 August 2023 in Brazil, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell shares a good laugh with a student while visiting the CEMEI 8 de Março school in the Ibura neighbourhood of Recife.

Widespread learning loss among Ukraine’s children, as students enter fourth year of disruption to education – UNICEF

Publication date: August 29, 2023

Continued attacks on education inside Ukraine and low-level enrolment in host countries have left many of Ukraine’s 6.7 million 3–18-year-olds struggling to learn, warns UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia Regina De Dominicis on return from Ukraine.

Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, is communicating with preschool children during her visit to "Lisova Pisnya" - one of the kindergarten, supported by UNICEF.

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change

Publication date: August 28, 2023

Today, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published authoritative guidance to States on what they must do to uphold children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Sheenal & Esther, UNICEF staffs speaking with mothers who live in Red Graon community at Teouma.

One year on from catastrophic floods, millions of children in Pakistan still need urgent support

Publication date: August 25, 2023

One year after historic floods devastated Pakistan and a national state of emergency was declared, millions of children continue to need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services, UNICEF warned today. Recovery and rehabilitation efforts remain underfunded.

Muriko bibi (7) and Tehseen (6) sit on the damaged wall of their mud house which was almost destroyed during the 2022 floods in Pakistan.

More than two million children displaced by brutal conflict in Sudan as violence spreads to new areas

Publication date: August 24, 2023

With more children displaced in past 52 days than in previous four years combined, UNICEF warns that, without peace, the future of Sudan’s children is at stake.

Transit Site in Roriak, Unity State, South Sudan. People receive support after fleeing conflict in Sudan.

"Time and time again" children's lives being cut short by attacks in Ukraine

Publication date: August 21, 2023

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

Statement by UNICEF Representative in Niger Stefano Savi on severe impact of ongoing crisis on millions of vulnerable children

Publication date: August 21, 2023

The crisis unfolding in the Republic of Niger continues to pose an even greater danger for millions of vulnerable children in the country.

Children in DR Congo facing worst cholera outbreak in six years, warns UNICEF

Publication date: August 18, 2023

More than 8,000 children under 5 years infected in North Kivu during first seven months of this year, over six times as many cases as in all of 2022.

Bazapa Bageta is a first-aid volunteer with the Red Cross, a UNICEF partner organization in Bulengo, North Kivu province, DR Congo. He raises awareness among displaced people to combat cholera and water-borne diseases.

After 4 months of war, humanitarian leaders urge action to end the tragedy in Sudan

Publication date: August 15, 2023

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee

A portrait of a young girl at a Child Friendly Space (CFS) supported by UNICEF in Atbara, Sudan.

76 per cent of children exposed to extreme high temperatures in South Asia - UNICEF

Publication date: August 8, 2023

With heat and high humidity in South Asia, UNICEF urges local authorities, frontline health workers and caregivers to help vulnerable children and families.