Press Releases

Canada’s children are reporting significant levels of unhappiness, loneliness, stress and violence

Publication date: September 3, 2019

UNICEF Canada’s new Canadian Index of Child and Youth Well-being reveals disturbing picture

Kids wearing backpacks running into school

Shortfall in education opportunities deepens despair of refugee Rohingya youth: UNICEF

Publication date: August 16, 2019

Two years after mass exodus from Myanmar, quality learning and life skills are crucial to more than 500,000 children sheltered in Bangladesh

Rohingya Children recite daily lesson at a UNICEF learning space in Bangladesh

Sharp increase in grave violations against children in Mali, warns UNICEF

Publication date: August 13, 2019

UNICEF scaling up emergency response to support children and families affected

Number of children orphaned or left unaccompanied by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rising fast: UNICEF

Publication date: August 13, 2019

The number of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who have been orphaned or left unaccompanied due to the Ebola epidemic has more than doubled since April, requiring a rapid ramp-up of specialized care in the Ebola-hit provinces of Ituri and North Kivu.

woman caring for children orphaned by Ebola

July ends with brutal acts of violence perpetrated against children across the Middle East and North Africa

Publication date: August 2, 2019

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

July ends with brutal acts of violence perpetrated against children across the Middle East and North Africa

Monsoon rains bring severe flooding and landslides across South Asia, affecting more than five million children

Publication date: July 18, 2019

UNICEF scaling up emergency response to support children and families affected

girl in front of her school in Bangladesh

Unwanted, exploited and abused: tens of thousands of children in Al-Hol camp and several parts of Syria in limbo amid dire humanitarian needs

Publication date: July 17, 2019

UNICEF calls for improved humanitarian access and protection of children including re-integration into local communities and safe return to home countries

20 million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

Publication date: July 15, 2019

New estimates find dangerous stagnation of global vaccination rates, due to conflict, inequality and complacency

Mass campaign to vaccinate over 3 million children against polio kicks off in Venezuela

Publication date: July 14, 2019

A mass polio vaccination campaign for more than 3.1 million children under the age of five in Venezuela started today, led by the Ministry of Health, with support from UNICEF and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Attack in Afrin, Syria, kills three children and causes significant damage to school

Publication date: July 12, 2019

Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa