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Children in Viet Nam lined up for temperature checks as they enter their school

Press release

10/22/2020

Over 1.5 million children at risk due to floods in central Viet Nam – UNICEF

The children’s agency is allocating an immediate $100,000 for emergency relief

On 25 February 2019 in Bangladesh, (left) UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore speaks (right) Rukaiya,11, at the Learning Centre Shikhon in the Camp 18 section of the Kutupalong-Balukhali mega-camp in the Cox's Bazar district. Rukaiya wants to be a teacher; she loves teaching others. She likes friends, teachers and classroom activities, especially interaction with her teacher, when she can give her opinion and feels it is valued. English is her favourite lesson.

Statement

10/22/2020

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at the Conference on Sustaining Support for the Rohingya Refugee Response

Checked against delivery

Niger. A baby is weighed and measured at a health center in Maradi.

Statement

10/20/2020

'Toxic brew' of instability, armed violence, extreme poverty, hunger and COVID-19 putting the future of an entire generation of children and young people in the Central Sahel at risk

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable Meeting on the humanitarian situation in the Central Sahel Region

Press release

10/19/2020

1 in 6 children lives in extreme poverty, World Bank-UNICEF analysis shows

The pre-COVID-19 analysis reveals that 356 million children struggle to survive on less than $1.90 a day, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa

Press release

10/19/2020

UNICEF to stockpile over half a billion syringes by year end, as part of efforts to prepare for eventual COVID-19 vaccinations

Initial preparatory work – in partnership with Gavi and WHO – will include purchasing boxes for the safe disposal of syringes and mapping out cold chain equipment to ensure delivery of effective vaccines

Statement

10/17/2020

UNICEF statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Press release

10/16/2020

Geneva Palais Briefing Note on the Central Sahel (ahead of the Ministerial Conference on 20 October 2020)

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Statement

10/15/2020

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore at the High-Level Special Event on Strengthening Global Governance of Food Security and Nutrition

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Somaya, 9, washes her hands in the Ferdousi camp, Nahri Shahi district of the Balkh province of Afghansitan.

Statement

10/15/2020

Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at the Global Handwashing Day: Accelerating Toward Hand Hygiene for All Event

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Hamsatou, 13, washes her hands at the Socoura displacement camp in Mopti, Mali.

Press release

10/14/2020

FACT SHEET: Lack of handwashing with soap puts millions at increased risk to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases

Statement

10/14/2020

CTFMR expresses grave concern over circumstances of two children killed in fighting between the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army in Buthidaung, Rakhine State

Statement from the Co-Chairs of the UN Country Taskforce on Monitoring and Reporting on Grave Violations against Children in Myanmar

Children eat school-provided lunch at Qanshalay Primary School in Dollow, Somalia, Tuesday, April 23, 2018. Qanshaley Primary School is just one of many in the region supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF

Statement

10/09/2020

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to WFP

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Press Releases

Breaking news, statements and reactions from UNICEF offices around the world

Over 1.5 million children at risk due to floods in central Viet Nam – UNICEF

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at the Conference on Sustaining Support for the Rohingya Refugee Response

'Toxic brew' of instability, armed violence, extreme poverty, hunger and COVID-19 putting the future of an entire generation of children and young people in the Central Sahel at risk

1 in 6 children lives in extreme poverty, World Bank-UNICEF analysis shows

UNICEF to stockpile over half a billion syringes by year end, as part of efforts to prepare for eventual COVID-19 vaccinations

UNICEF statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Geneva Palais Briefing Note on the Central Sahel (ahead of the Ministerial Conference on 20 October 2020)

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore at the High-Level Special Event on Strengthening Global Governance of Food Security and Nutrition

Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at the Global Handwashing Day: Accelerating Toward Hand Hygiene for All Event

FACT SHEET: Lack of handwashing with soap puts millions at increased risk to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases

CTFMR expresses grave concern over circumstances of two children killed in fighting between the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army in Buthidaung, Rakhine State

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to WFP

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