Press Releases

UNICEF provides support to all public school teachers in Afghanistan for 2 months

Publication date: February 20, 2022

UNICEF and partners are providing emergency cash support to all public education teachers in Afghanistan for the months of January and February.

Children in eastern Ukraine must have access to safe education and childhood –UNICEF

Publication date: February 17, 2022

The conflict has taken a severe toll on the psychosocial wellbeing of an entire generation of children growing up in eastern Ukraine.

UNICEF Canada calls for children’s rights and safety to be ‘paramount’ in public health protests across the country

Publication date: February 16, 2022

For the past three weeks, organized protests concerning COVID-19 public health mandates have occurred at various locations across the country. Children have been present at some of these protests, and many more have been affected by them. We call on all parties to ensure that the rights and safety of children are given paramount importance.

Urgent support needed for 1.4 million children likely to suffer from acute malnutrition in Somalia

Publication date: February 15, 2022

Funding immediately needed to procure nutrition supplies and avert deaths

Haiti: Six months after the earthquake, more than 4 out of 5 schools destroyed or damaged are yet to be rebuilt

Publication date: February 14, 2022

Six months after the devastating earthquake that struck southwest Haiti, more than 1,000 schools are yet to be rebuilt

ACT-Accelerator calls for fair share-based financing of US$ 23 billion to end pandemic as global emergency in 2022

Publication date: February 9, 2022

World leaders launched a call to end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022 by funding the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator

UNICEF working to assist tens of thousands following cyclone Batsirai In Madagascar

Publication date: February 9, 2022

UNICEF and partners in Madagascar are urgently working to support people in need of humanitarian assistance following the devastating impact of cyclone Batsirai

UNICEF Geneva Palais Briefing note on the crisis in the Horn of Africa, as well as the impact of Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai on children and communities

Publication date: February 8, 2022

Summary of what was said by UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern & Southern Africa Mohamed M Fall at February 8, 2022 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNICEF meets child survivors of the attack on northeast Syria prison

Publication date: February 6, 2022

UNICEF met with some of the children still detained in the Ghwayran detention centre, in al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.

A crisis within a crisis: Increased investment critical to end female genital mutilation as COVID-19 rages on

Publication date: February 4, 2022

Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation