Press Releases
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, on the escalating violence in Syria’s coastal areas
NEW YORK (March 9, 2025) – “UNICEF is deeply alarmed by the recent surge in violence in Syria’s coastal areas, which has reportedly claimed the lives of at least 13 children, including a six-month-old...
WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund – in support of UNICEF – rallies the world to help close the women’s health gap this International Women’s Day
NEW YORK (March 7, 2025) — Today, ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, the WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund announces a new partnership with UNICEF, to help close the women’s...
Fast Facts: 30 years of uneven progress for adolescent girls
NEW YORK (March 6, 2025) – Despite significant achievements in areas such as education over the last three decades, millions of adolescent girls across the world today are still out of school, ill...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on global foreign aid reductions
NEW YORK (March 5, 2025) – “Announced and anticipated funding cuts will limit UNICEF’s ability to reach millions of children in dire need. “These cuts by numerous donor countries follow two years of...
Children as young as one reported among survivors of rape during Sudan’s violent conflict - UNICEF
NEW YORK (March 4, 2025) – Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including infants as young as one, amid the nationwide conflict rippling across Sudan. Data compiled by gender-based...
UNICEF reaches 364,000 children daily in Goma with clean water and sanitation after escalation in DR Congo conflict
NEW YORK (March 3, 2025) – UNICEF and its partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing life-saving clean water supplies to 700,000 people a day – around 364,000 children – in...
With stoppage of humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip, UNICEF warns of severe consequences for children and families in desperate need
NEW YORK (March 3, 2025) – UNICEF is warning that the stoppage of aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip will quickly lead to devastating consequences for children and families across Gaza who are...
UNICEF Geneva Palais Briefing Note on the impact of the attacks in Lebanon on children
NEW YORK (February 28, 2024) – “I am speaking to you this morning from Beirut to share alarming findings of the new UNICEF survey we conducted in January 2025, after more than a year of war and...
Decline in children’s mental health, nutrition and education after the war in Lebanon: UNICEF
NEW YORK (February 28, 2025) – The latest war in Lebanon has had a significant negative impact on children’s lives, with effects continuing to reverberate even after the ceasefire came into effect in...
Education under attack in Haiti
NEW YORK (February 28, 2025) – “In just one month, January this year, armed groups destroyed 47 schools in Haiti’s capital. With 284 schools destroyed in 2024, the relentless attacks on education are...