Press Releases

Five-fold increase in number of refugee and migrant children traveling alone since 2010 – UNICEF

Publication date: May 17, 2017

Ahead of G7, UNICEF urges world leaders to adopt six-point action agenda to keep refugee and migrant children safe

More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan

Publication date: May 8, 2017

More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today.

UNICEF statement on release of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram

Publication date: May 7, 2017

UNICEF welcomes Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago.

Urgent action needed to protect children in ‘forgotten crisis’ in Central African Republic: UNICEF

Publication date: May 5, 2017

Without increased support, the lives and futures of more than 1 million children in the Central African Republic are under threat, UNICEF said today.

Projected number of severely malnourished Somali children up 50 percent

Publication date: May 2, 2017

Somali children face triple threat of drought, disease and displacement

UNICEF Advocate Ishmael Beah helps give a voice to young people affected by the conflict in Syria

Publication date: April 27, 2017

“Young people who survive war have an amazing ability to persevere and become champions of peace”

UNICEF reaches almost half of the world’s children with life-saving vaccines

Publication date: April 26, 2017

Despite progress, millions of children still miss out on life-saving immunization

Race against time to save millions of lives in Yemen

Publication date: April 24, 2017

The continuing violence in Yemen is fueling one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly seven million people not knowing where their next meal will come from and in desperate need of food assistance. Nearly 2.2 million children are malnourished, including half a million who are severely malnourished and at imminent risk of death if they do not receive urgent care and specialized treatment.

More than 150 children estimated to have died taking Central Mediterranean migration route this year - UNICEF

Publication date: April 21, 2017

According to UNICEF estimates, more than 150 children have died crossing the Central Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy so far this year. Yet the true number of child casualties is almost certainly higher given that many children on the move are unaccompanied, so their deaths often go unreported.

1.5 million children affected by violence in Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo