Press Releases

Number of children in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan doubles as conflict enters third year amid ‘perfect storm’ of threats to children

Publication date: April 15, 2025

15 million children in need as violence, hunger, and disease increase, and growing constraints on access and funding compound challenges

Children walk back home from a UNICEF-supported child friendly space in Al Houri internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp in Gedaref State.

Approximately 3,500 children have died in the central Mediterranean over the past 10 years – UNICEF

Publication date: April 14, 2025

18 April marks 10 years since a catastrophic shipwreck off the coast of Italy killed more than 1,000 people, including children.

A child reported raped every half an hour in eastern DRC, as violence rages amid a growing funding crisis

Publication date: April 11, 2025

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

Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn

Publication date: April 7, 2025

Countries must recommit to ending deaths in childbirth amid major headwinds

A mother with newborn getting doctor's assessment in Pakistan

At least 322 children reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip following breakdown of ceasefire

Publication date: April 1, 2025

The resurgence of relentless and indiscriminate bombardments, combined with the complete block on supplies entering the Gaza Strip for more than three weeks, has put the humanitarian response under severe strain and Gaza’s civilians – especially its one million children – at grave risk.

A Gazan child stands on top of rubble in Northern Gaza.

UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note: The impact of the earthquake in Myanmar on children

Publication date: April 1, 2025

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF’s Deputy Representative, Julia Rees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – on the current situation in Myanmar at today’s Palais briefing.

Children and families take shelter in makeshift outdoor spaces in Mandalay, Myanmar, following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck on 28 March 2025.

Millions of children at grave risk following Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake in decades

Publication date: March 30, 2025

UNICEF calls for urgent response as homes, schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure have sustained severe damage.

A building in Myanmar showing visible signs of destruction, with collapsed walls and debris, caused by a powerful earthquake.

At least 14 million children face disruptions to critical nutrition services in 2025 – UNICEF

Publication date: March 26, 2025

Reductions in donor funding threaten to unravel decades of progress for the world’s most vulnerable children and women

Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths under threat, warns the United Nations

Publication date: March 25, 2025

Number of under-five deaths declined to 4.8 million in 2023, while stillbirths remained around 1.9 million, according to two new UN reports.

A newborn sleeps in their mother's lap in a HBPNC (Home-based postnatal care) in Balolabadi, Jhabhua, Madhya Pradesh, India.

The enduring hope of Haiti’s children in the midst of chaos