News Type - Any -BlogMediaNewsStatement UNICEF warns: There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah News 6. May 2024 With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected. Sudan: Attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children Statement 3. May 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Darfur, Sudan. Lebanon: Intensification of the conflict in the south jeopardises children's lives News 30. April 2024 75 per cent of children in Lebanon at risk of poverty, as multiple overlapping crises push families closer to the brink. Ukraine: Significant increase in number of children killed News 26. April 2024 25 children were verified as killed in attacks across Ukraine between January and March 2024. More investment is needed in development aid Statement 25. April 2024 A statement from UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein on development aid. Ukraine: Three children killed in devastating attacks Statement 19. April 2024 Statement by Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director for UNICEF Europe and Central Asia. The harrowing fates of families in the Middle East Statement 17. April 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East. Children disproportionately wearing the scars of the war in Gaza Statement 16. April 2024 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Communication Specialist Tess Ingram – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva UNICEF and Anatole Taubman give children a stage Media 15. April 2024 In the current spring campaign "Life is not a game", UNICEF ambassador and actor Anatole Taubman gives children a stage who would otherwise have none. 365 days of war: Children in Sudan face intergenerational catastrophe News 15. April 2024 One year since violence exploded in Sudan, and as the ensuing crisis continues to deepen, the lives, educations and futures of a generation of Sudanese children hang in the balance. Three young girls die on Greek shores, in yet another shipwreck tragedy Statement 11. April 2024 Statement by UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe Regina De Dominicis. "Children are the first to suffer" Statement 4. April 2024 UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on Children and Armed Conflict. 9 years into the conflict in Yemen, millions of children are malnourished and stunted News 26. March 2024 More than half of the population needs lifesaving support, with malnutrition taking a particularly heavy toll on children. Gaza's Children: Trapped in a Cycle of Suffering Statement 26. March 2024 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva Public spaces for all: The importance of child-friendly transportation planning News 19. March 2024 The design of public spaces has a profound impact on how children and young people grow and develop. It plays a decisive role in determining whether, and to what extent, children and young people can use public spaces and move freely in them. Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip News 18. March 2024 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age are today acutely malnourished in the north, according to nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF and partners Syria: more children than ever in need of humanitarian assistance Media 15. March 2024 After thirteen years of conflict in Syria, almost 7.5 million children in the country are in need of humanitarian assistance – more than at any other time during the conflict. UNICEF and MSC Foundation celebrate another impressive milestone News 14. March 2024 A new milestone in the history of the fourteen-year partnership: The MSC Foundation has raised $14 million to date to help UNICEF improve the lives of children around the world. UN report: Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 Media 13. March 2024 The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME National Council votes “yes” on environmental remediation of playgrounds Media 12. March 2024 Switzerland’s National Council voted yesterday to provide financial support for the environmental remediation of residential playgrounds, thus passing a bill proposed by the Federal Council. Children in Sudan at risk of famine Statement 11. March 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on children in Sudan at risk of famine Over 230 million have been subjected to female genital mutilation Media 8. March 2024 Over 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), according to a newly released UNICEF report. Escalating violence in Haiti Statement 7. March 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Haiti. Gaza: "The child deaths we feared are here!" Statement 4. March 2024 Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Two years of war in Ukraine Media 23. February 2024 Children in cities in Ukraine’s frontline areas have been forced to spend between 3,000 and 5,000 hours sheltering in basements and underground metro stations over the past two years, as air raid alerts sound above. Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip News 20. February 2024 A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster. World’s worst displacement crisis: Record numbers of children seek life-saving care in Sudan News 9. February 2024 Without additional resources and humanitarian access, more children could die due to malnutrition and disease than conflict One year after the earthquake: Anatole Taubman visits the Turkish-Syrian border Media 6. February 2024 One year after the devastating earthquake on the Turkish-Syrian border, more than ten million children are still in urgent need of humanitarian aid. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Anatole Taubman visited the region to learn more about the current situation for the children and about UNICEF’s work there. International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Statement 6. February 2024 Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, OHCHR High Commissioner Volker Türk, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Earthquake on the Syrian-Turkish border region: one year on News 6. February 2024 One year after the deadliest earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria’s recent history, the impacts of the catastrophe continue to reverberate for children. For those in Syria, the impact is compounded by the effects of a wider ongoing humanitarian crisis. First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
UNICEF warns: There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah News 6. May 2024 With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected.
Sudan: Attack on El Fasher would endanger hundreds of thousands of children Statement 3. May 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Darfur, Sudan.
Lebanon: Intensification of the conflict in the south jeopardises children's lives News 30. April 2024 75 per cent of children in Lebanon at risk of poverty, as multiple overlapping crises push families closer to the brink.
Ukraine: Significant increase in number of children killed News 26. April 2024 25 children were verified as killed in attacks across Ukraine between January and March 2024.
More investment is needed in development aid Statement 25. April 2024 A statement from UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein on development aid.
Ukraine: Three children killed in devastating attacks Statement 19. April 2024 Statement by Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director for UNICEF Europe and Central Asia.
The harrowing fates of families in the Middle East Statement 17. April 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East.
Children disproportionately wearing the scars of the war in Gaza Statement 16. April 2024 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Communication Specialist Tess Ingram – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
UNICEF and Anatole Taubman give children a stage Media 15. April 2024 In the current spring campaign "Life is not a game", UNICEF ambassador and actor Anatole Taubman gives children a stage who would otherwise have none.
365 days of war: Children in Sudan face intergenerational catastrophe News 15. April 2024 One year since violence exploded in Sudan, and as the ensuing crisis continues to deepen, the lives, educations and futures of a generation of Sudanese children hang in the balance.
Three young girls die on Greek shores, in yet another shipwreck tragedy Statement 11. April 2024 Statement by UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe Regina De Dominicis.
"Children are the first to suffer" Statement 4. April 2024 UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on Children and Armed Conflict.
9 years into the conflict in Yemen, millions of children are malnourished and stunted News 26. March 2024 More than half of the population needs lifesaving support, with malnutrition taking a particularly heavy toll on children.
Gaza's Children: Trapped in a Cycle of Suffering Statement 26. March 2024 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
Public spaces for all: The importance of child-friendly transportation planning News 19. March 2024 The design of public spaces has a profound impact on how children and young people grow and develop. It plays a decisive role in determining whether, and to what extent, children and young people can use public spaces and move freely in them.
Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip News 18. March 2024 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age are today acutely malnourished in the north, according to nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF and partners
Syria: more children than ever in need of humanitarian assistance Media 15. March 2024 After thirteen years of conflict in Syria, almost 7.5 million children in the country are in need of humanitarian assistance – more than at any other time during the conflict.
UNICEF and MSC Foundation celebrate another impressive milestone News 14. March 2024 A new milestone in the history of the fourteen-year partnership: The MSC Foundation has raised $14 million to date to help UNICEF improve the lives of children around the world.
UN report: Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 Media 13. March 2024 The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME
National Council votes “yes” on environmental remediation of playgrounds Media 12. March 2024 Switzerland’s National Council voted yesterday to provide financial support for the environmental remediation of residential playgrounds, thus passing a bill proposed by the Federal Council.
Children in Sudan at risk of famine Statement 11. March 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on children in Sudan at risk of famine
Over 230 million have been subjected to female genital mutilation Media 8. March 2024 Over 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), according to a newly released UNICEF report.
Escalating violence in Haiti Statement 7. March 2024 Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Haiti.
Gaza: "The child deaths we feared are here!" Statement 4. March 2024 Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Two years of war in Ukraine Media 23. February 2024 Children in cities in Ukraine’s frontline areas have been forced to spend between 3,000 and 5,000 hours sheltering in basements and underground metro stations over the past two years, as air raid alerts sound above.
Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip News 20. February 2024 A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster.
World’s worst displacement crisis: Record numbers of children seek life-saving care in Sudan News 9. February 2024 Without additional resources and humanitarian access, more children could die due to malnutrition and disease than conflict
One year after the earthquake: Anatole Taubman visits the Turkish-Syrian border Media 6. February 2024 One year after the devastating earthquake on the Turkish-Syrian border, more than ten million children are still in urgent need of humanitarian aid. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Anatole Taubman visited the region to learn more about the current situation for the children and about UNICEF’s work there.
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Statement 6. February 2024 Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, OHCHR High Commissioner Volker Türk, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Earthquake on the Syrian-Turkish border region: one year on News 6. February 2024 One year after the deadliest earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria’s recent history, the impacts of the catastrophe continue to reverberate for children. For those in Syria, the impact is compounded by the effects of a wider ongoing humanitarian crisis.