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04/22/2021

Syria receives its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility

Joint Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ted Chaiban, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Ahmad Al-Mandhari, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Director of Country Support, Pascal Bijleveld

Statement

04/20/2021

UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore's Remarks at Virtual Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

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7-month-old Natan Hailay eats a high energy biscuit to boost his nutrition levels.Natan's family are displaced from the Western Zone of Tigray Setit Humara Woreda and currently sheltered at Meserete high school in Mekelle.

News note

04/20/2021

Crisis in Tigray enters sixth month with no clear end in sight amid 'severe and ongoing child rights violations'

Geneva Palais Briefing on the situation of children in Tigray, Ethiopia

Jean Gough, UNICEF Regional Director of UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean Children, distributes UNICEF's Hygiene kits in Municipal Gym Kiki Romero in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México on 12 April 2021

Press release

04/19/2021

Nine times more migrant children in Mexico over the past three months - UNICEF

Statement

04/14/2021

UNICEF statement following the death of at least 20 children trapped in a fire at a school in Niger’s capital, Niamey

Statement attributable to Mr. Aboubacry Tall, UNICEF Representative a.i. in Niger

Press release

04/14/2021

16 children and 27 adults dead off the coast of Djibouti after migrant boat capsizes

FILE PHOTO: Dec. 4th 2020, Metuge, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique: Children (and their families) at Metuge IDP camp.

News note

04/13/2021

Geneva Palais Briefing note on the situation of children in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

This is a summary of what was said by Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programmes – to whom quoted text may be attributed – via video conference from Pemba, Mozambique, at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

Press release

04/12/2021

UNICEF providing humanitarian assistance to nearly 5,000 children affected by volcano eruption in Saint Vincent

Press release

04/08/2021

COVAX reaches over 100 economies, 42 days after first international delivery

Statement

04/06/2021

We need speed and simplicity to remove barriers to the acquisition, manufacture and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

A boy wearing a mask to protect himself against COVID-19 in the South of Côte d’Ivoire.

Press release

04/01/2021

Pre-pandemic data show 1 in 8 countries spends more on debt than on education, health and social protection combined – UNICEF

UNICEF is calling for the extension of debt service relief and debt restructuring so that countries – and their children – can bounce back

COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the COVAX Facility arrive at Aden International Airport in Aden, Yemen, on 31 March, 2021.

Press release

03/31/2021

Yemen receives 360,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses through the COVAX Facility

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Press Releases

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

Syria receives its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility

UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore's Remarks at Virtual Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

Crisis in Tigray enters sixth month with no clear end in sight amid 'severe and ongoing child rights violations'

Nine times more migrant children in Mexico over the past three months - UNICEF

UNICEF statement following the death of at least 20 children trapped in a fire at a school in Niger’s capital, Niamey

16 children and 27 adults dead off the coast of Djibouti after migrant boat capsizes

Geneva Palais Briefing note on the situation of children in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

UNICEF providing humanitarian assistance to nearly 5,000 children affected by volcano eruption in Saint Vincent

COVAX reaches over 100 economies, 42 days after first international delivery

We need speed and simplicity to remove barriers to the acquisition, manufacture and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally

Pre-pandemic data show 1 in 8 countries spends more on debt than on education, health and social protection combined – UNICEF

Yemen receives 360,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses through the COVAX Facility

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UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore's Remarks at Virtual Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras