Press Releases

UNICEF outlining plans to transport up to 850 tonnes of COVID-19 vaccines per month on behalf of COVAX, in ‘mammoth and historic’ logistics operation

Publication date: December 18, 2020

UNICEF – in partnership with Gavi and WHO – is also helping low- and lower-middle-income countries prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccines in 2021

Some of the 3,842,000 doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) that arrived in Uganda on 24 April 2020 to support ongoing routine immunization services throughout the country.

Teachers should be prioritized for vaccination against COVID-19

Publication date: December 15, 2020

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

05 November 2020, Trom Village, Laminh Commune, Borkeo District, Rattanakiri, Cambodia. Portrait of MORN Sambo, 27, teacher at the village primary school of Trom, teaching a disabled student.

Statement by UNICEF Canada’s President and CEO David Morley on Canada’s additional support for equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines

Publication date: December 14, 2020

UNICEF Canada welcomes the Government of Canada’s new contributions to fight the global pandemic

Pinky Kumari, Cold Chain Handler, prepares to keep vaccine in vaccine carriers at Primary health centre (PHE) in Begusarai, Bihar.

Child poverty to rise above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries including Canada - UNICEF

Publication date: December 11, 2020

In high-income countries, only 2 per cent of fiscal stimulus was allocated specifically to support children during the first wave of COVID-19; a better balance of spending that provides more direct support to children is urgently needed

Father playfully lifting his daughter in the air

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