Press releases

JUBA, South Sudan, 4 November 2025 – The United Nations today warns that South Sudan continues to face a severe food and nutrition crisis, which is threatening to deteriorate further unless urgent humanitarian action is mounted.

ROME/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 4 November 2025 – The latest analysis of food insecurity and malnutrition in Sudan shows stark contrasts along conflict lines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today. In areas where violence has subsided – allowing humanitarian access and market recovery – food security has begun to improve. But in conflict-hit locations that have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance or under siege, famine has now taken hold.

NEW YORK, 29 October 2025 –UNICEF is gravely concerned by the images and reports coming from Al Fasher, in the Darfur region of Sudan.PANAMA CITY, 30 October 2025 - Several days of torrential rains, storm surges and catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Melissa have impacted the lives of more than 700,000 children across the Caribbean, according to UNICEF estimates.

NEW YORK, 29 October 2025 –UNICEF is gravely concerned by the images and reports coming from Al Fasher, in the Darfur region of Sudan.

JUBA/NEW YORK, 27 October 2025 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson visited South Sudan last week to see the impacts of economic shocks, climate change, poverty, and insecurity on children’s lives, especially girls, against a backdrop of severe global cuts to official development assistance.

PANAMA CITY, 26 October 2025 - As Hurricane Melissa is moving slowly across the Caribbean Sea, the winds, torrential rains, and flash flooding have put at least 1.6 million children at risk, according to UNICEF estimates.

AMMAN, 26 October 2025 – “Two weeks ago, the start of the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip delivered long-awaited relief for families, where it offers a vital chance for the survival, safety and dignity of children.

N'DJAMENA/NEW YORK 24 October 2025 – "Thank you for joining us.  I speak to you a day after leaving Darfur, following a mission that also took me to Khartoum."What I saw was alarming. Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The conflict is escalating, and children are paying the highest price.

GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME/PORT SUDAN, 23 October 2025 – Four United Nations agencies today called for urgent international attention on the crisis in Sudan, to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population. Over 900 days of brutal fighting, widespread violations of human rights, famine, and the breakdown of life-sustaining services have pushed millions to the brink of survival, particularly women and children.

London, Monday 20 October 2025 – UNICEF UK today announces the launch of its new brand campaign ‘Making Childhood Unstoppable’.

KABUL, 16 October 2025 – One month after a devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks struck eastern Afghanistan, over 212,000 surviving children remain at severe risk of deadly disease outbreaks due to widespread destruction of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, UNICEF warned today.

NEW YORK, 14 October 2025 - “Children in Haiti today wake up not knowing if they will be able to go to school safely, find food, or even survive the day without being hit by a stray bullet or being caught in the crossfire of armed groups.

GENEVA, 14 October 2025 – “Good morning and thank you for your time. “Right now, in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, [the largest camp there] funding crisis is threatening to erase years of progress for Rohingya children. I was there last week and it was disheartening to watch Classrooms [close], services [shrink], and the futures of hundreds of thousands of children are hanging by a thread. 

AMMAN/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 12 October 2025 – At least 17 children – 9 girls and 8 boys, including an infant just seven days old – were killed in an attack on the Dar al-Arqam Displacement Centre in Al Fasher, North Darfur, early yesterday morning, according to reports received by UNICEF. A further 21 children were reportedly injured.

NEW YORK, 10 October 2025 – “UNICEF welcomes today's ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which provides hope for Palestinian children who have suffered through two years of horrific war.

GENEVA, 10 October 2025 – “Let me begin by sharing the reaction to yesterday’s news of this agreement to secure a ceasefire and end the war in the Gaza Strip from two children UNICEF spoke to in Deir al Balah, southern Gaza. Their words are far more powerful than anything I can say here today.

London, UK, October 10 2025 - UNICEF UK Ambassador Arlo Parks joined pupils at Moreland School in Islington for a Dove Self-Esteem Project workshop (DSEP) focused on building body confidence and self-esteem.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/NEW YORK, 9 October 2025 – The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, according to a new UNICEF Child Alert report released today. Overall, more than 1.3 million people are displaced across the country as spiraling violence, collapsing services, and lack of humanitarian access push Haiti deeper into crisis. 

NEW YORK, 8 October 2025 — “For more than 700 days, children in Gaza have been killed, maimed, and displaced in a devastating war that is an affront to our shared humanity. Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. The world cannot, and must not, allow this to go on.

ROME/NEW YORK, 6 October 2025 – UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican today to focus world attention on the plight of vulnerable children, especially those impacted by conflict, poverty and the global foreign aid funding and debt crises.