Press Releases

There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah, warns UNICEF

Publication date: May 6, 2024

With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected

Children walk through the tents in the UK-FCDO supported camp in Rafah, southern the Gaza Strip.

UNHCR and UNICEF condemn the bombardment of displacement camps in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Publication date: May 3, 2024

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) strongly condemn the bombing today of three sites for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Lac Vert, Lushagala, and Mugunga neighbourhoods of Goma, North Kivu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Displaced children on their way to school at the Lushagala IDP site in North Kivu province, DR Congo on 11 September 2023. UNICEF and its partners have set up temporary learning spaces in the site to allow displaced children to continue their learning.

An attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children, warns UNICEF

Publication date: May 3, 2024

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on situation in Darfur, Sudan

An attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children, warns UNICEF

Geneva Palais briefing note: Caught in the Crossfire – Lebanon’s children under fire

Publication date: April 30, 2024

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

UNICEF is distributing winter clothes and school kits to displaced families in South Lebanon.

Children in Lebanon pay heavy price amid intensifying conflict in the south and compounding national crises

Publication date: April 30, 2024

75 per cent of children in Lebanon at risk of poverty, as multiple overlapping crises push families closer to the brink.

Aya, 4 years old. UNICEF is distributing winter clothes and school kits to displaced families in South Lebanon.

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

Publication date: April 24, 2024

WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launch “Humanly Possible” campaign to scale up vaccination programs around the world during World Immunization Week 2024

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

UNICEF calls for urgent action to save Pakistan’s children on the frontlines of climate change

Publication date: April 22, 2024

On Earth Day, Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, on the damaging impact of climate change and pollution on children

Children seen on the street in the inundated region of Geokaloi Village in the Southern Pakistani province of Sindh.

Briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Publication date: April 22, 2024

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

In the heart of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, escalating violence has become a grim reality. In less than two weeks, this violence has led to the displacement of 2,500 people, with most of them being women and children.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East

Publication date: April 16, 2024

“Children do not start wars, and they cannot end them, but they always pay the highest price," says Executive Director Catherine Russell.

Statement by UNICEF Canada on the 2024 Federal Budget