Press releases

23 June 2017 - More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne disease as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad.

23 June 2017 – Today, Unicef NEXTGeneration London announces it has raised more than £1 million to support Unicef’s work for the children of Syria

22 June 2017 - Unicef UK and Save the Children warn that unaccompanied refugee children are at risk of losing their legal route to be reunited with their family in the UK.

21 June 2017 - Famine has eased in South Sudan after a significant scale up in the humanitarian response, according to new analysis released today.

20 June 2017 - As more than 1,000 children continue to flee South Sudan, on average every day in search of safety, the region’s refugee crisis has become a children’s crisis.

19 June 2017 – Unicef announced today, on the eve of World Refugee Day, the appointment of Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old education activist and Syrian refugee, as its newest – and youngest – Goodwill Ambassador.

16 June 2017 – UNICEF-supported programmes for over 9 million Syrian children might be cut off due to a critical £173 million funding gap.

16 June 2017 –Launching as Father’s Day is celebrated on Sunday in 80 countries, the new analysis is drawn from UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme – the largest collection of comparable data mapping parental behavior in the world

15 June 2017 - The UK Government still has some way to go to ensure it meets the commitments it made to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at home, resulting in positive change for the country’s children, reveals a new Unicef report.

13 June 2017 - “The cholera outbreak in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming speed. Over 124,000 cases have been recorded – almost half of them are children."

9 June, 2017- the UK’s leading aid organisations welcome the reappointment of Priti Patel, but call on Secretary of State not to act unilaterally on UK aid reform.

9 June, 2017- “Heavy violence in the city of Ar-Raqqa is threatening the lives of children. UNICEF has received alarming reports that at least 25 children were killed and scores injured in Ar-Raqqa city.

9 June 2017 - More than 150,000 children are missing out on school as violence and attacks against civilian populations continue in the Greater Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

8 June 2017 – The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen continues to rise, reaching 101 820 with 791 deaths as of 7 June 2017. Worst affected are the country’s most vulnerable: children under the age of 15 account for 46% of cases, and those aged over 60 represent 33% of fatalities.

5 June 2017 – "We are receiving alarming reports of civilians including several children being killed in west Mosul. Some were reportedly killed as they desperately tried to flee the fighting which is intensifying by the hour."

2 June, 2017 – “Cholera is spreading incredibly fast in Yemen, turning an already dire situation for children turn into a disaster."

1 June 2017 –After weeks of intensified conflict in the Central African Republic blocked vital humanitarian assistance to thousands of families displaced by violence in the southeast, two planes carrying vital supplies were finally able to land earlier today in Bangassou.

1 June 2017 – At least 1.3 million children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance across the Bay of Bengal region following severe weather over the past six days.

1 June 2017: At least 2.7 million children live in residential care worldwide, according to a new estimate by UNICEF.

31 May 2017 - In the past 72 hours, the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has risen by 10,000 to a total of 65,300.