Press Releases

Mosul’s children, sick, alone, wounded and scarred, are in urgent need of assistance and protection

Publication date: July 13, 2017

Statement attributable to Hamida Ramadhani, UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Iraq

Funding shortfalls threaten education for children living in conflict and disaster zones

Publication date: July 7, 2017

Funding shortfalls are threatening education for millions of children caught up in conflicts or disasters, UNICEF said today ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg.

Beyoncé partners with UNICEF to bring safe water to children in remote areas of Burundi

Publication date: June 30, 2017

Global entertainer and humanitarian Beyoncé has teamed up with UNICEF through her BeyGOOD philanthropic arm to announce the launch of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, a multi-year partnership to provide safe water to the most vulnerable children in Burundi. The partnership will support programs to improve water, sanitation and basic hygiene practices in the hardest-to-reach areas of the landlocked East African nation.

Africa’s first humanitarian drone testing corridor launched in Malawi by Government and UNICEF

Publication date: June 29, 2017

The Government of Malawi and UNICEF today launched an air corridor to test potential humanitarian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. The corridor is the first in Africa and one of the first globally with a focus on humanitarian and development use.

UNICEF calls for the protection of children trapped in west Mosul’s violence

Publication date: June 29, 2017

Statement attributable to Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s Representative in Iraq

UNICEF AIRLIFTS LIFE-SAVING SUPPLIES TO YEMEN TO COMBAT CHOLERA AS CASES SURPASS 200,000

Publication date: June 28, 2017

Three UNICEF charter planes have delivered 36 tons of life-saving medical and water purification supplies to Yemen to scale up efforts to combat the world’s worst cholera outbreak.

Children continue to bear the brunt of multiple emergencies in Sudan

Publication date: June 28, 2017

UNICEF urgently requires US$22 million to provide lifesaving response for over 100,000 children

Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says

Publication date: June 27, 2017

Unless the world makes faster progress on reducing child mortality, by 2030 almost 70 million children will die before reaching their fifth birthday.

Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on the cholera outbreak in Yemen as suspected cases exceed 200,000

Publication date: June 24, 2017

The rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has exceeded 200,000 suspected cases, increasing at an average of 5,000 a day. We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world.

UNICEF calling for famine and food crisis donations in final week of Government of Canada match

Publication date: June 23, 2017

Canadians have just one week left to have their donations to the famine and food crisis matched by the Government of Canada’s Famine Relief Fund and UNICEF is calling for life-saving donations by the June 30 match deadline.