Press Releases

Only half of young people able to identify correct definition of climate change – UNICEF, Gallup

Publication date: December 7, 2023

Findings highlight urgent need to protect and invest in children, including in climate education, in decisions at COP28

On 6 December 2023, UNICEF Youth Advocates brief press during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) at Expo City Dubai in United Arab Emirates.

Canada still in the middle of high-income countries on child poverty, new UNICEF report

Publication date: December 5, 2023

Despite some progress, Canada can do more to protect its children from poverty

"The war on children resumes"

Publication date: December 1, 2023

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - via video link from Gaza, at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

Despite progress, adolescent girls continue to bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic with 98,000 new infections in 2022 - UNICEF

Publication date: December 1, 2023

Children and adolescents face significant treatment gaps in testing and access to medication

Veronica Marco Bareza carries her youngest child, Mubarak (9 months), at the hospital in Wau, South Sudan.

Burkina Faso: Insecurity pushes more than 1 in 10 children into acute malnutrition in heavily affected areas

Publication date: November 28, 2023

New nutrition data shows that insecurity is leaving children exposed to alarming levels of malnutrition and the absence of basic services, warns UNICEF

A mother with her baby at the CSPS Health Center, in Fada, in the east of Burkina Faso.

Shipments to African countries herald final steps toward broader vaccination against malaria

Publication date: November 22, 2023

More than 330,000 doses of WHO-recommended RTS,S malaria vaccine arrived last night in Cameroon – a historic step towards broader vaccination against one of the deadliest diseases for African children.

On 21 November 2023 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, an airport worker loosens the webbing securing a pallet holding boxes of the first WHO-approved malaria vaccine, which have just arrived as part of the first shipment.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on the protection of children in Gaza

Publication date: November 22, 2023

As delivered

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on the protection of children in Gaza

Gaza’s children running out of time: Water shortages spark disease alarm

Publication date: November 21, 2023

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

Gaza’s children running out of time: Water shortages spark disease alarm

Climate change is an urgent threat to pregnant women and children

Publication date: November 21, 2023

Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change in Dubai.

A mother works in the fields with her six-month baby in South Punjab Province.

At least 5 million children at the brink in Darfur as unchecked conflict worsens

Publication date: November 20, 2023

In the last seven months of fighting in Sudan, reported cases of children killed and injured in Darfur spiked 450 per cent when compared to all of 2022.