Press Releases

Violence in Myanmar driving up to 12,000 Rohingya refugee children into Bangladesh every week – UNICEF

Publication date: October 20, 2017

Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few days, UNICEF said today.

7,000 newborns die every day, despite steady decrease in under-five mortality, new report says

Publication date: October 19, 2017

Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 per cent of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN report.

Violence in al-Mayadin district, Deir ez-Zor, reportedly destroys cold room and vaccines

Publication date: October 12, 2017

Likely setback to immunization activities in areas where health systems already devastated

GIRLS TAKE OVER: BEYONCÉ LENDS HER SONG ‘FREEDOM’ TO GLOBAL GOALS CAMPAIGN FILM DEMANDING #FREEDOMFORGIRLS ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL

Publication date: October 11, 2017

The Global Goals, agreed to by world leaders in 2015, include a commitment to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030 – Global Goal 5. To mark International Day of the Girl on the 11th October, Project Everyone (the organization behind the Global Goals campaign) in partnership with UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed up with director MJ Delaney to produce a new film featuring the song ‘Freedom’ by Beyoncé.

World’s second largest oral cholera vaccination campaign kicks off at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Publication date: October 10, 2017

A massive cholera immunization campaign started today near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900 000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilized and are being delivered by more than 200 mobile vaccination teams, making it the second largest oral cholera vaccination campaign ever.

UNICEF “Water for Life” Gala celebrates 25 years of raising life-saving funds to provide clean water for children

Publication date: October 5, 2017

On October 14, Calgary will celebrate a 25-year tradition of supporting UNICEF’s life-saving work for children and families around the world through its annual UNICEF “Water for Life” Gala.

One year after Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s children still vulnerable to natural disasters

Publication date: October 4, 2017

One year after Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 hurricane, devastated the Southwest of Haiti, causing loss of life and considerable damage, children and adolescents in the Caribbean country are still incredibly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters and extreme weather events, UNICEF warned today.

UNICEF appeals for US$76.1 million to assist children in Bangladesh affected by the Rohingya crisis

Publication date: October 2, 2017

UNICEF is launching a US$76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh. The appeal will cover the immediate needs of newly-arrived Rohingya children, as well as those who arrived before the recent influx, and children from vulnerable host communities -- 720,000 children in all.

Investment in children should be at the core of Mexico’s reconstruction efforts after devastating earthquakes – UNICEF

Publication date: September 29, 2017

UNICEF called today for children to be at the heart of public and private investment in reconstruction efforts following the devastating earthquakes of 7 and 19 September. The children’s agency went on to strongly encourage investment for earthquake-affected children in the areas of protection, physical and emotional well-being, education and shelter for families.

More than half of all schools remain closed in Borno State, epicentre of the Boko Haram crisis in northeast Nigeria