Press Releases

UNICEF appeals for US$9.3 billion emergency funding for children living through conflicts and crises in an increasingly hostile world

Publication date: December 12, 2023

The funds will provide essential programs for over 93.7 million children worldwide affected by conflict, disasters, and climate crises

A young boy smiles during the inauguration ceremony of his school in Maingrette.

Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa on the continued killing and injuring of children in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian situation

Publication date: December 9, 2023

The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them.

Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa on the continued killing and injuring of children in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian situation

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

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.

"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

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