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More Than 60 Rohingya Babies Born in Bangladesh Refugee...
05/16/2018
NEW YORK (May 17, 2018) – More than 16,000 Rohingya babies have been born in refugee camps and informal settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in the nine months since a spike in violence in Rakhine...
Stop Attacks on Children
05/14/2018
NEW YORK (May 15, 2018) – “From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, and from Syria to Afghanistan, attacks on children in conflict have continued unabated during the first four months of the...
Winter Cash Assistance Helps Syrian Children Wrap Up Wa...
05/02/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – Winter cash assistance enabled families in Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps to buy warm clothes for their children before freezing temperatures set in and is an effective...
Aid Workers Released Unharmed in South Sudan
05/02/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – Ten aid workers who had been detained by an armed group since Wednesday, 25 April, outside of South Sudan’s Yei town were released today. The group returned safely to Juba...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. For...
05/01/2018
NEW YORK (April 30, 2018) – “I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the attack which reportedly killed 11 children this morning while they were studying at a religious school in Afghanistan’s...
UNICEF KID POWER SAVES THE LIVES OF OVER 70,000 CHILDR...
05/01/2018
NEW YORK, NY (May 1, 2018) – UNICEF USA announced that its UNICEF Kid Power has unlocked more than 10 million packets of lifesaving nutrition, enough to save the lives of over 70,000 malnourished...
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Fatoumata Ndiaye H...
04/26/2018
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018) – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Fatoumata Ndiaye handed over a health post building in Malu, Dolakha District, on the day after the three-year anniversary of the...
Nearly 5 Million Syrian Children Accessing Education De...
04/23/2018
NEW YORK (April 23, 2018) – Against all odds, 4.9 million Syrian children continue to have access to education despite more than seven long years of war, violence and displacement. “Massive funding...
Military Action On and Around Water Infrastructure Jeop...
04/17/2018
NEW YORK (April 17, 2018) – “Yemen continues to be one of the world’s most water-scarce countries. Access to drinking water is extremely costly for the most vulnerable people: 8.6 million children in...
More than 1,000 Children in Northeastern Nigeria Abduct...
04/13/2018
NEW YORK (April 13, 2018) – Since 2013, more than 1,000 children have been abducted by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, including 276 girls taken from their secondary school in the town of Chibok...