Press Releases

More children released from South Sudanese armed groups – UNICEF

Publication date: August 7, 2018

More than 100 children were released by two armed groups in South Sudan on Tuesday, bringing the total number released this year to over 900. This was the fourth release ceremony in 2018.

New Ebola outbreak in the DRC: UNICEF mobilizes staff and supplies to help with the response

Publication date: August 3, 2018

Following the August 1 announcement by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of a new Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu, UNICEF has mobilized its teams to help contain the spread of the disease and protect children.

Drinking water systems under repeated continuous attack in Yemen

Publication date: August 1, 2018

UNICEF calls for immediate halt to attacks on water facilities and civilian infrastructure in Yemen

Three in five babies not breastfed in the first hour of life

Publication date: July 31, 2018

Breastfeeding within an hour after birth is critical for saving newborn lives

Children account for nearly one-third of identified trafficking victims globally

Publication date: July 29, 2018

UNICEF and the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking urge Governments to adopt solutions shown to protect uprooted children

Every three minutes a teenage girl is infected by HIV – UNICEF

Publication date: July 25, 2018

Teenage girls bear brunt of a far-from-over HIV/AIDS epidemic

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lilly Singh visits South Africa to meet students affected by violence in school

Publication date: July 24, 2018

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lilly Singh, travelled to South Africa this week to meet children who are speaking out on classroom violence and bullying, as part of UNICEF’s work to end violence in schools.

Access to children in need in Syria continues to be severely restricted

Publication date: July 19, 2018

Ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on Syria, UNICEF renews its call for safe and unconditional humanitarian access to reach children in need wherever they are

Six children among the dead in north-western Libya

Publication date: July 17, 2018

Attributable to Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, Special Representative of UNICEF for Libya

Record number of children vaccinated in 2017

Publication date: July 16, 2018

As over 19 million children miss out on vaccinations, UNICEF and WHO call for concerted efforts to reach all children