Media Releases and Stories

After 500 days under siege, children in Sudan’s Al Fasher face starvation, mass displacement, and deadly violence

27 August 2025

After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.

Famine confirmed for the first time in Gaza

23 August 2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have collectively and consistently highlighted the extreme urgency for an immediate and full-scale humanitarian response given the escalating hunger-related deaths.

When governments step back, philanthropy steps up

A powerful article in The New York Times yesterday revealed the devastating impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts on global child malnutrition. 

Children in Sudan ‘reduced to skin and bones’ as UNICEF calls for urgent action

5 August 2025

On 3 August, the UNICEF Representative Sheldon Yett observes children receiving nutrition services and care at Mayo Mandela clinic in Jebel Awlia, Sudan.

Myanmar: Before, During & After Emergency

UNICEF's Long Term Commitment to Children

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban's remarks following his recent travel to Israel, Gaza & the West Bank

2 August 2025

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, speaks with members of the medical team at the malnutrition treatment point of the Friends of the Patient Society Hospital in Gaza City on 29 July 2025.

UN Agencies warn key food and nutrition indicators exceed famine thresholds in Gaza

29 July 2025

Gaza faces the severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert.

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the MENA Region, Edouard Beigbeder

25 July 2025

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the MENA Region, Edouard Beigbeder, on the unconscionable deaths of children by starvation in the Gaza Strip 

Learning Together, Healing Together

Hope and recovery at Survival School

UNICEF Aotearoa thanks outgoing Chief Executive Michelle Sharp 

15 July 2025

The Board of UNICEF Aotearoa has thanked its Chief Executive Michelle Sharp who is leaving the organisation after almost five years in the role.

Joint statement by OCHA, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP and WHO on fuel shortage in Gaza

14 July 2025

Scenes from the local market in Deir El Balah – where families face skyrocketing prices and severe shortages due to the ongoing restrictions on aid and commercial supplies – captured on 3 July 2025

70 per cent of children in Ukraine lack access to basic goods and services as material deprivation soars

10 July 2025

On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, a resource worker carried a child as first responders, hospital staff and volunteers clear the rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre.