Press Releases

Universal child benefits critical in reducing poverty, new ODI and UNICEF report finds

Publication date: June 16, 2020

As the economic fallout of COVID-19 deepens, investment in social protection systems key to protecting families from catastrophic levels of deprivation and financial hardship

Happy child smiling in Gonzagueville, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

An additional 51,000 children under the age of five might die in the Middle East and North Africa by end of 2020 due to COVID-19’s disruption in primary health care

Publication date: June 15, 2020

From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa and Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Geneva Palais briefing note on the humanitarian situation of children in Yemen

Publication date: June 12, 2020

This is a summary of what was said by Marixie Mercado, UNICEF spokesperson in Geneva – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Ethar is 4 months old and recovering from malnutrition at the 22 May Hospital in Sana'a. There are currently over 360,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Yemen

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Publication date: June 12, 2020

Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat

Millie Bobby Brown, Sofia Carson join UNICEF in the World’s Largest Lesson Live, Encouraging Teens to Reimagine the World Post COVID-19

Publication date: June 10, 2020

Today World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with UNICEF and with the support of UNESCO, announces World’s Largest Lesson Live. This 35-minute educational show will premiere on YouTube on the 16th June 2020 11am EST, 4pm BST.

Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta Fore posing for photo with Goodwill Ambassador Millie Bobby Brown at World Children's Day event in 2019.

Tropical Storm Amanda leaves destruction and grief as it passes through El Salvador

Publication date: June 2, 2020

Hundreds of Salvadoran families have had to evacuate their homes due to the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Amanda

Overview of the destruction caused by the flooding of the Acelhuate River in the New Israel Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, May 31, 2020

UNICEF AIRLIFTS ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES TO RESPOND TO COVID-19 IN YEMEN AS CASES INCREASE

Publication date: June 1, 2020

In response to the increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 in Yemen, a UNICEF chartered plane on Saturday, 30 May landed at Sana’a airport with lifesaving supplies to help curb the spread of the disease in the conflict-hit country.

After being displaced by ongoing insecurity a young girl helps her family carry home a basic hygiene kit. They received urgent support through the Rapid Response Mechanism in Shuab

COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86 million by end of year

Publication date: May 28, 2020

New analysis from Save the Children and UNICEF reveals that without urgent action, the number of children living in poor households across low- and middle-income countries could increase by 15 per cent, to reach 672 million

Chimaou, 3, a migrant child at the Seno site for migrants in quarantine due to COVID-19 in Niamey, Niger.

Countries failing to stop harmful marketing of breast-milk substitutes, warn WHO and UNICEF

Publication date: May 27, 2020

Agencies encourage women to continue to breastfeed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Grandmother Mampu Drami hold her grandson Mohamed after his mom Mohamed Mama Drami (34) who gave birth to twins two weeks ago at the paediatric ward in the Bafata hospital, Guinea Bissau, Thursday,17 January 2020. Unicef support the hospital by providing nutrition counselling, prevention and treatment of nutrition , HIV family testing and birth registration. Unicef Photo/Prinsloo

Food crisis likely to worsen in the Middle East and North Africa as COVID-19 continues