Two UN organisations have called on governments in Europe and Central Asia to put an immediate end to the practice of placing young children into State-run infant homes. Following the release of two new reports which document violations and abuses of children in state-run homes, OHCHR and UNICEF...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Martin Mogwanja as one of UNICEF's three Deputy Executive Directors. Mr. Mogwanja will replace Omar Abdi, who will take up the position of UNICEF's Comptroller. Prior to taking up his new position Mr. Mogwanja, who is a Kenyan...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNICEF signed a major agreement, joining forces across Asia and the Pacific region to fight disparities, reduce poverty, and ensure that equitable and sustainable development benefits all children. The signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between...
UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, arrives in Pakistan Monday 30 August to tour flood-hit areas and see UNICEF operations to assist the millions of flood-affected people, especially the most vulnerable, the children and women. On Monday, Mr. Lake will travel to Charsadda district, one of...
"Mothers fleeing flooded homes with nothing but their babies clinging to their backs; people waving for help from the top of houses and sheds as the waters rise around them; desperately thirsty children drinking from contaminated water sources. The disaster has reached tragic proportions. But...
UNICEF is delighted to announce the appointment of the Indian cinema's leading lady, Priyanka Chopra as its newest National Ambassador promoting child rights and adolescence. Ms. Chopra will join Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Sharmila Tagore in supporting UNICEF's work for children...
UNICEF has appealed for $47.3 million to fund its relief operation for the millions hit by flooding in Pakistan, including an estimated 1.4 million children. Pakistan is facing the worst flooding in more than 80 years. Heavy monsoon rains have affected close to 4 million people across the...
An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is intensifying at an alarming pace, fueled by drug use, high-risk sexual behavior and high levels of social stigma that discourage people from seeking prevention information and treatment, according to a new report released today by...
More than a million mosquito nets are being distributed in the Central African Republic in a bid to protect children and pregnant women from malaria. The effort by the Government of the CAR and UNICEF aims to put at least one long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito net (LLIN) into each of the...
Anthony Lake, who "has been a foreign policy advisor to several Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates," has officially become the executive director of UNICEF, Agence France-Presse reports (5/2). Lake was sworn into office Monday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the U.N...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday selected President Barack Obama's nominee to head UNICEF - Anthony Lake, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. UNICEF's board must approve Ban's selection and is expected to do so, the newspaper writes (3/17). Beginning in May, Lake will assume...
In response to weeks of freezing temperatures and heavy snows have left more than half of Mongolia's 21 provinces in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF has mobilized to help children and families, addressing their most urgent humanitarian concerns, including food, fuel for heating...
A $27 million UNICEF program that aims to decrease disease-related child deaths in West Africa did not meet its goal of reducing death rates by at least 25 percent at the conclusion of 2006, according to a Lancet study published on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. "The U.N. children's...
A $27 million UNICEF program that aims to decrease disease-related child deaths in West Africa did not meet its goal of reducing death rates by at least 25 percent at the conclusion of 2006, according to a Lancet study published on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. "The U.N. children's...
This week the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) New Zealand launches a ground breaking online campaign. The campaign is called UNDER COVER because UNICEF wants every child at risk of getting malaria to sleep safely under the cover of a life-saving net.