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CARACAS / PANAMA CITY / NEW YORK (January 25, 2019) – “UNICEF regrets and condemns the reported loss of lives, including the deaths of teenagers, during recent demonstrations in Venezuela, and...

NEW YORK (January 24, 2019) – More than 145,000 Rohingya refugee children living in camps in south-east Bangladesh are now attending UNICEF-supported learning centers, as a new school year begins...

Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa NEW YORK (January 15, 2019) – “Freezing temperatures and harsh living conditions in Rukban, at...

NEW YORK, (January 1, 2019) – Almost 11,283 babies will be born in the United States on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. American babies will account for approximately 2.9 percent of the estimated...

NEW YORK / AMMAN / BEIRUT / DAMASCUS (December 13, 2018) – With an estimated 4 million children born in Syria since the conflict started nearly eight years ago, half of the country’s children have...

NEW YORK (December 12, 2018) – Fifteen thousand children remain separated from their families or missing, five years after conflict first broke out in South Sudan. More than four million people have...

NEW YORK (December 11, 2018) – Children now account for more than one-third of the Ebola cases in affected regions of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNICEF said today. The UN...

NEW YORK, (December 10, 2018) – As Nadia Murad, the Yazidi activist and survivor of gender-based violence is honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace, UNICEF is calling attention to the plight of...

NEW YORK (December 5, 2018) – “The living conditions of millions of children in Yemen are a disgrace. There is no excuse for these dark realities in the 21 st century. Wars, deep economic crises and...

NEW YORK (November 30, 2018) – “More than 60,000 boys and girls are out of school because of the fighting in and around the port city of Hudaydah in Yemen. The violence has forced over a third of all...