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Press Releases

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

Latest press releases, news notes and statements

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Nearly 1 million children affected by massive floods in Iran

Over 1,000 health facilities destroyed or damaged: UNICEF vaccines cold chain equipment arrives in country

19/04/2019

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Children’s lives and well-being in danger as fighting intensifies in Tripoli, Libya

Joint statement by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, and Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

18/04/2019

On 21 March 2019 in Mozambique, Helcio Filipe Antonio holds a boy named Anderson Tackdi the Samora Michel High School in Beira

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Cyclone Idai: Education at risk for more than 305,000 children in Mozambique – UNICEF

More than 3,400 classrooms damaged or destroyed in storm

18/04/2019

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UNICEF launches #VaccinesWork campaign to inspire support for vaccines

Amid growing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, UNICEF’s campaign will use social media to show that most parents trust vaccines to protect their children

17/04/2019

Tears of happiness when Emmanuela* 36, met her children in Bentiu Protection of Civilian (POC) site after five years of separation on 16 April 2019.

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6,000 children reunited with families after years of separation in South Sudan

17/04/2019

Permanent link to Image: https://weshare.unicef.org/archive/-2AMZIF37FLKD.html UNICEF supporter and singer/songwriter Dua Lipa visits youths at the Lebanese Organisation for Studies and Training (LOST), a UNICEF partner, in Bednayel, Lebanon, April 13, 2019. LOST is a Lebanese NGO that promotes peace education and social cohesion among youth – especially between the Lebanese and Syrian youth.

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Recording artist Dua Lipa visits Lebanon with UNICEF to meet refugee children and young people

15/04/2019

Mozambique. Two brothers stand next to the rubble that used to be there house.

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One month on from Cyclone Idai, 1.6 million children still reeling from its impact – UNICEF

Children need urgent access to health, nutrition and water services to prevent malnutrition and disease outbreaks

13/04/2019

Nigeria. A girl in a community shelter in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

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More than 3,500 children have been recruited and used by non-state armed groups in northeast Nigeria since 2013

Marking five years since Chibok abduction, UNICEF urges protection of children’s rights

12/04/2019

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North Sinai attack reportedly kills two children

Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

10/04/2019

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Nearly half a million children in Tripoli at immediate risk

Statement by Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, UNICEF Special Representative in Libya

09/04/2019

Yemen. A baby suffering from malnutrition.

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Blast in Sana’a kills another 14 children in school and injures 16, most under the age of nine

Statement from Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

09/04/2019

Children stand in a UNICEF funded mobile kindergarten

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175 million children are not enrolled in pre-primary education – UNICEF

UNICEF’s first-ever global report dedicated to early childhood education highlights a lack of investment in pre-primary by the majority of governments worldwide

08/04/2019