Press Releases
April 19, 2013
UNICEF Staffers Make TIME 100 List “World’s Most Influential People”
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake congratulated Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, co-leads of UNICEF’s Innovation Unit, on being selected for this year’s prestigious TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world. Fabian and Kochi drive new technologies and strategies at UNICEF. UNICEF also congratulated to all of the 2013 TIME 100, and in particular to 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, for her inspiring and unflagging support for girls’ education.
April 19, 2013
UNICEF Reports One in Five Children Unimmunized and At Risk
UNICEF is concerned that efforts to vaccinate every child are plateauing as funding falls and political will stagnates. In 2011 22.4 million children were not immunized—an increase of more than 1 million from 2010. Vaccines are estimated to save the lives of 2 to 3 million children each year and represent one of the greatest achievements in public health of the last century, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Immunization is also cost effective. It costs less than $1 to protect a child against measles for life.
April 19, 2013
Emergency Supplies for Women and Children Reach Aleppo and Homs, Syria
UNICEF and partners have just completed delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, while a separate mission this week brought emergency supplies for children and women in Talbiseh, near Homs, one of the hardest hit areas in the country. With the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and other UN agencies, UNICEF brought to Aleppo four trucks filled with 89 medical kits, 2,000 family hygiene kits and 2 resuscitation kits, along with 1,000 towels, 48 boxes of soap, summer clothing and school supplies.
April 17, 2013
More Children Killed in Central African Republic Amid Escalating Violence
In the face of the intensifying violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), more and more children are being killed and injured, says UNICEF. UNICEF is calling on all armed groups to stop actions that are putting civilian lives at risk, either through fighting or by preventing humanitarian aid reaching those in need. “Children are caught in the crossfire in their daily activities, even when playing football or attending church. This is outrageous,” said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF’s Representative in the Central African Republic.
April 15, 2013
UNICEF Report Shows Progress in Fight against Stunting in Children
A new UNICEF report issued today shows that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth, which affects 165 million children under the age of five. Globally one in four children under five is stunted. An estimated 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 14 countries.
