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Global Report on Food Crises: Acute hunger remains persistently high in 59 countries with 1 in 5 people assessed in need of critical urgent action
ROME (April 24, 2024) – According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a...
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
GENEVA / NEW YORK / SEATTLE (April 24, 2024) – A major landmark study in be published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the...
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell Briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti
NEW YORK (April 22, 2024) - Excellencies … good afternoon. It is good to be with you. Thank you to Ambassador Frazier for hosting this discussion during Malta’s Security Council presidency, and for...
UNICEF calls for urgent action to save Pakistan’s children on the frontlines of climate change
ISLAMABAD (April, 22 2024) – “Torrential and unseasonal rains are currently sweeping through Pakistan, once again putting children’s lives in danger. “It is a reminder of the devastating tragedy in...
Meaningful action to prevent the use of explosive weapons in populated areas could almost halve number of child casualties in conflicts - UNICEF
NEW YORK/OSLO (April 22, 2024) – Between 2018 and 2022, explosive weapons were responsible for nearly half - 49.8 per cent - of the more than 47,500 instances of children killed and maimed that were...
Three children reportedly killed in Ukraine this week, in more devastating attacks – UNICEF
KYIV/GENEVA (April 19, 2024) – “At least three children aged 6, 8 and 14 have reportedly been killed in yet another horrific attack in the Dnipro region earlier today. Our deepest sympathies are with...
Gavi and UNICEF Welcome Approval of New Oral Cholera Vaccine
NEW YORK (April 18, 2024) – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF welcome the news that a new oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Euvichol-S, has now received WHO prequalification and can be made available to...
UNICEF USA Announces Actor, Author and Human Rights Activist Aria Mia Loberti as Newest Ambassador
NEW YORK (April 18, 2024) – UNICEF USA has appointed star of Netflix’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, Aria Mia Loberti, as the organization’s newest...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East
NEW YORK/JERUSALEM (April, 16 2024) - “Today I completed a two-day visit to the Middle East, where escalating violence continues to take an unconscionable toll on the lives of children. “On the first...
Three Young Girls die on Greek Shores, in yet Another Shipwreck Tragedy - UNICEF
NEW YORK (April 11, 2024) – “Three girls aged 5, 7 and 10 years old died on the shores of Chios, Greece this week, in yet another tragic shipwreck. Two of them were sisters. Our deepest sympathies are...