Press Releases
Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children
NEW YORK (October 8, 2025) – “For more than 700 days, children in Gaza have been killed, maimed, and displaced in a devastating war that is an affront to our shared humanity. Israeli strikes on Gaza...
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell meets Pope Leo XIV to discuss the plight of the world’s children
NEW YORK (October 6, 2025) – UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican today to focus world attention on the plight of vulnerable children, especially those...
Shoeless, Starving, and Nowhere to Go: The Brutal Logic Imposed on Gaza’s Children
NEW YORK (October 3, 2025) – “Gaza City remains home to tens of thousands of children. Shoeless children push grandparents in wheelchairs around rubble. Amputee children struggle through the dust...
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Turns 75: Celebrating Generations of Lifesaving Impact for Children
NEW YORK (October 1, 2025) — This Halloween season, UNICEF USA is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 75 years of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, the longest-running youth engagement campaign in the...
City of Salem Joins UNICEF USA’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative
NEW YORK, NY/SALEM, MA (September 26, 2025) – The City of Salem is proud to officially announce its partnership with UNICEF USA by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start its estimated...
DR Congo: UNICEF delivers vaccines and life-saving support as Ebola outbreak hits Kasai
NEW YORK (September 24, 2025) – Nearly 45,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine are on their way to Kasai province as UNICEF intensifies efforts alongside the government and partners to protect children and...
Ten children killed in ten days in Port-au-Prince
NEW YORK (September 23, 2025) – “UNICEF is deeply shocked and concerned by the killing of ten children in ten days in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. “According to reports, at least six children...
At least 11 children reportedly killed in attack on a mosque in Sudan’s North Darfur State
NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN (September 22, 2025) – “The drone attack on a mosque at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced people in Al Fasher, North Darfur, during Fajr prayers three days ago is...
Statement by UNICEF on the theft of lifesaving therapeutic food for thousands of children in Gaza
NEW YORK (September 19, 2025) - “Yesterday, armed individuals approached four trucks outside our compound in Gaza City that were getting ready to transport desperately needed Ready-to-Use Therapeutic...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the denial of education to adolescent girls in Afghanistan for 4 years
NEW YORK (September 17, 2025) - “It has been four years since adolescent girls in Afghanistan were barred from attending school beyond grade 6. By the end of 2025, more than 2.2 million adolescent...