Press Releases

Ukraine: Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell calling for a suspension of hostilities to carry out urgent humanitarian action in Ukraine

Publication date: February 28, 2022

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell calls for a suspension of hostilities to carry out urgent humanitarian action in Ukraine

The international community and the de facto authorities must find ways to work together – for the sake of the children of Afghanistan

Publication date: February 25, 2022

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell at the end of three-day trip to Afghanistan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell on children in Ukraine

Publication date: February 24, 2022

UNICEF is deeply concerned that intensifying hostilities in Ukraine pose an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of the country’s 7.5 million children.

More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing – WHO, UNICEF

Publication date: February 23, 2022

New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments

On October 16, 2019, Eva Ramírez a woman of the community of Chicoy, Todos Santos, Huehuetenango, Guatemala is breastfeeding her son, Junior Chales Ramírez (16 months old).

UNICEF provides support to all public school teachers in Afghanistan for 2 months

Publication date: February 20, 2022

UNICEF and partners are providing emergency cash support to all public education teachers in Afghanistan for the months of January and February.

Children in eastern Ukraine must have access to safe education and childhood –UNICEF

Publication date: February 17, 2022

The conflict has taken a severe toll on the psychosocial wellbeing of an entire generation of children growing up in eastern Ukraine.

UNICEF Canada calls for children’s rights and safety to be ‘paramount’ in public health protests across the country

Publication date: February 16, 2022

For the past three weeks, organized protests concerning COVID-19 public health mandates have occurred at various locations across the country. Children have been present at some of these protests, and many more have been affected by them. We call on all parties to ensure that the rights and safety of children are given paramount importance.

Urgent support needed for 1.4 million children likely to suffer from acute malnutrition in Somalia

Publication date: February 15, 2022

Funding immediately needed to procure nutrition supplies and avert deaths

Haiti: Six months after the earthquake, more than 4 out of 5 schools destroyed or damaged are yet to be rebuilt

Publication date: February 14, 2022

Six months after the devastating earthquake that struck southwest Haiti, more than 1,000 schools are yet to be rebuilt

ACT-Accelerator calls for fair share-based financing of US$ 23 billion to end pandemic as global emergency in 2022

Publication date: February 9, 2022

World leaders launched a call to end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022 by funding the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator