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UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the UN Security Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine

Publication date: March 7, 2022

Briefing to the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine by UNICEF Executive Catherine Russell

Unaccompanied and separated children fleeing escalating conflict in Ukraine must be protected

Publication date: March 7, 2022

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

A child looks out from a carriage window

First shipment of UNICEF humanitarian aid arrives in Ukraine as conflict escalates

Publication date: March 5, 2022

More lifesaving supplies to follow

One week into conflict in Ukraine, half a million children become refugees - UNICEF

Publication date: March 3, 2022

UNICEF warns of mounting risks for children as conflict intensifies in populated areas

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the Joint Launch of the Humanitarian Flash Appeal and Regional Refugee Response Plan, Ukraine

Publication date: March 1, 2022

"The situation facing children and families caught up in the escalating conflict in Ukraine grows worse by the minute."

On 27 February 2022, as military operations continue in Ukraine, a woman carrying a small child waits to board an evacuation train at the railway station in Lviv, in Ukraine's westernmost corner, near the Polish border.

Today, 1 billion of the world’s most vulnerable children are at extreme risk. If the world fails to act, tomorrow it will be all children. It is past time to put children at the center of climate action.

Publication date: February 28, 2022

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 Report

Students walking on foot across flooded paths - South Sudan

Ukraine: Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell calling for a suspension of hostilities to carry out urgent humanitarian action in Ukraine

Publication date: February 28, 2022

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell calls for a suspension of hostilities to carry out urgent humanitarian action in Ukraine

The international community and the de facto authorities must find ways to work together – for the sake of the children of Afghanistan

Publication date: February 25, 2022

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell at the end of three-day trip to Afghanistan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell on children in Ukraine

Publication date: February 24, 2022

UNICEF is deeply concerned that intensifying hostilities in Ukraine pose an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of the country’s 7.5 million children.

More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing – WHO, UNICEF

Publication date: February 23, 2022

New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments