Press releases

25 May 2017 - At least 200 children have died along the dangerous Central Mediterranean migration route from North Africa to Italy so far this year

25 May 2017 - H&M UK has raised a staggering £1m to help vulnerable children around the world by donating its customer plastic bag charges to Unicef UK.

24 May 2017– The crisis in Greater Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has severely disrupted life-saving interventions for children

London, 23 May 2017 – Unicef UK today paid tribute to its long-term supporter and Goodwill Ambassador, Sir Roger Moore, who has died at the age of 89.

23 May 2017 – Unresolved conflict, poverty and under-development are preventing children in more remote parts of Myanmar from reaping the benefits of the reform and reconciliation

18 May 2017 - “Now more than ever, the UK needs to show that it remains an influential and positive voice in the world.

18 May 2017 – The global number of refugee and migrant children moving alone has reached a record high, increasing nearly five-fold since 2010, UNICEF said today in a new report.

15 May 2017 - England captain and Chance to Shine Ambassador Heather Knight today visited Hague Primary School in East London

7 May 2017 – “UNICEF welcomes Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago."

7 May 2017 - UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Priyanka Chopra, has called for increased awareness and support for child victims of sexual violence.

8 May 2017 – More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging the country, UNICEF and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today.

5 May 2017 – Without increased support, the lives and futures of more than 1 million children in the Central African Republic are under threat, UNICEF said today.

4 May 2017 – Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkans are at risk of psychosocial distress caused by living in a protracted state of limbo, UNICEF warned today.

2 May 2017 – UNICEF has installed 20 new prefabricated classrooms in Tartus, Syria, and rural areas of Damascus, thanks to a generous donation from the Leo Messi Foundation.

2 May 2017 – The projected number of children who are or will be acutely malnourished has shot up by 50 per cent since the beginning of the year to 1.4 million, including over 275,000 who have or will suffer life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in 2017.

27 April - A multi country effort to protect children and teachers from the effects of conflict is underway in the Lake Chad region.

26 April 2017 -In response to this afternoon’s Home Office statement Hayley Cull, Head of Campaigns and Advocacy at Unicef UK, said: “This will be a much needed lifeline for these 130 children. It is vital they reach safety in the UK quickly, so that they can be protected and start to rebuild their lives.

25 April 2017 – Almost 30,000 young children, many of them displaced by a searing drought, are being vaccinated against measles this week in an emergency campaign in Baidoa

25 April 2017 - The continuing violence in Yemen is fuelling one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly 7 million people in desperate need of food assistance.

24 April 2017 - More than 25 million children between 6 and 15 years old, or 22 per cent of children in that age group, are missing out on school in conflict zones across 22 countries, UNICEF said today