Press Releases

New report identifies ten ways Canadian businesses can better support children’s rights

Publication date: December 10, 2020

First ever Child Rights and Business Assessment launched in Canada

New report identifies ten ways Canadian businesses can better support children’s rights

UNICEF issues record US$6.4 billion emergency funding appeal

Publication date: December 3, 2020

Funds will support essential programs for more than 190 million children impacted by humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic

Friends sit by a UNICEF-supplied mosquito net in Bienythiang in Akoka county, Upper Nile state, South Sudan on 23rd October 2020.

Two thirds of the world’s school-age children have no internet access at home, new UNICEF-ITU report says

Publication date: December 1, 2020

The International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF call for urgent investment to bridge a digital divide currently preventing children and young people from accessing quality digital learning and opportunities online

Two thirds of the world’s school-age children have no internet access at home, new UNICEF-ITU report says

UNICEF Canada launches The Anthony and L. Britt Giuffre Family Fund

Publication date: December 1, 2020

New fund aims to help UNICEF give every child the chance to reach their full potential

320,000 children and adolescents newly infected with HIV in 2019, 1 every 100 seconds – UNICEF

Publication date: November 25, 2020

UNICEF warns of COVID-19 disruptions to HIV service delivery in one third of high burden countries

Veronica Marco Bareza carries her youngest child, Mubarak (9 months), at the hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She was infected with HIV by her second husband, a soldier who has been missing since the conflict in South Sudan re-emerged in 2016.

COVAX Update: UNICEF working with global airlines and freight providers to plan delivery of COVID-19 vaccines

Publication date: November 23, 2020

UNICEF kickstarts discussions with over 350 logistics organizations to step up delivery plans for eventual COVID-19 vaccines

Presidents, Prime Ministers, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and global businesses unite with children and young people on World Children’s Day

Publication date: November 20, 2020

Stars and leaders around the world joined children and young people to reimagine a better post-pandemic world on UNICEF’s annual World Children’s Day.

Teen boy holding microphone where World Children's Day cyan blue shirt

2.3 million children in Tigray region of Ethiopia need humanitarian assistance, as thousands flee across border into Sudan

Publication date: November 19, 2020

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

An Ethiopian refugee child who fled fighting in Tigray province sits holding a child in a hut at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province, on 16 November 2020. Sudan – one of the world's poorest countries, now faced with the massive influx – has reopened the camp, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the border. It once housed refugees who fled Ethiopia's 1983-85 famine that killed over a million people.

UNICEF calls for averting a lost generation as COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children’s education, nutrition and well-being

Publication date: November 19, 2020

Children and adolescents account for 1 in 9 of reported COVID-19 infections, according to new analysis released ahead of World Children’s Day

Ujas 11 shows how to correctly wear masks

Children and young people join UNICEF Ambassadors Simu Liu, Ishmael Beah, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, Millie Bobby Brown and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in conversations for World Children’s Day

Publication date: November 13, 2020

Youth advocates raise their voices and reimagine post-pandemic world for children