Press Releases

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.

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

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

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

On October 16, 2019, Eva Ramírez a woman of the community of Chicoy, Todos Santos, Huehuetenango, Guatemala is breastfeeding her son, Junior Chales Ramírez (16 months old).

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.