Latest UNICEF News

Epidemic risk rising as Rafah invasion compounds lethal cocktail of over-crowding, sewage and hunger
Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for your health, whatever you might have heard
AIFS research supports latest findings on gender divide in working families
GAZA: Injured children struggling to recover amid decimated health system after witnessing horrific scenes
Are video games good for young kids? QUT study finds ‘wellbeing’ benefits
WHO and France convene high-level meeting to defeat meningitis
UN Women statement for the International Girls in ICT Day 2024
UN Women statement for the International Girls in ICT Day 
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
Scientists urge action over life-threatening pollution from solar power waste in Africa
UN expert calls for strengthening social cohesion and international solidarity: Denmark and Greenland
GAZA: Over 2% of Gaza’s child population killed or injured in six months of war
Personnel In Spotlight
No cash, no play? Have cost-of-living pressures impacted sports participation in Australia?
Wyndham’s Young Person Of Month 8 April
Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera
Digital Child centre and UNICEF Australia champion young children’s digital wellbeing
Making life better without harming the planet – a challenge for this year’s public school game changers
Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN Committee warns: Gaza
Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water, soap and toilets, and shortage of cholera vaccine
Financing social protection and care systems turbocharges economies, reduces poverty
24 million children exposed to a year of brutality and rights violations, UN committee says: Sudan conflict
Funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and Additional Support for Gaza
ACFID welcomes Australian Government’s reinstatement of funding to UNRWA
WHO and UNICEF launch free online course to address children’s environmental health
Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report
Wave of new commitments marks historic step towards the elimination of cervical cancer
Message From Director
Elle Macpherson returns to the catwalk after 16 years for the PayPal Runway
Conflict in North Kivu, DRC: over a hundred thousand people living in disastrous conditions without clean water
Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip
Putting survivors at the forefront of the global movement to end female genital mutilation
New Zealand provides further humanitarian support to Gaza and the West Bank
Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO – January 2024
Queenslanders shining bright at Australian of the Year Awards
Australia Day activities in city
Australia Day 2024 Ambassadors Announced
Sport can play part in youth mental health
Darwin’s Citizen of Year Award winners announced
Beyond GDP: Mental wealth readies societies for mega-threats
UN Women Executive Board to convene first regular session of 2024
Preventing famine and deadly disease outbreak in Gaza requires faster, safer aid access and more supply routes
Griffith Australia day Ambassador announced
UN Secretary-General appoints Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda of Zimbabwe as UN Women Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support, United Nations System Coordination and Programme Results
WHO teams deliver supplies to hospitals in Northern and Southern Gaza
WHO prequalifies a second malaria vaccine, a significant milestone in prevention of the disease
WHO and UNICEF publish new psychological intervention to support adolescents and their caregivers
COVID-19 vaccinations shift to regular immunization as COVAX draws to a close