Press releases

New data reveal nearly 3 in 4 infants live in countries where low vaccine coverage driving measles outbreaks

Over 300 000 children now internally displaced in the country, a 60 per cent increase since March.

New data reveals that over 750,000 people are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity with 25.6 million people in crisis levels of hunger

Children experiencing severe food poverty due to inequity, conflict, and climate crises are up to 50 per cent more likely to suffer from life-threatening malnutrition, new analysis finds.

The much awarded singer and songwriter Bastian Baker will now act as an ambassador for UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Today, the Star Weeks Award Ceremony took place at the Zurich Schauspielhaus attended by approximately 550 children and adults. The event celebrated the most creative children's fundraising campaigns.

In the current spring campaign "Life is not a game", UNICEF ambassador and actor Anatole Taubman gives children a stage who would otherwise have none.

After thirteen years of conflict in Syria, almost 7.5 million children in the country are in need of humanitarian assistance – more than at any other time during the conflict.

The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME

Switzerland’s National Council voted yesterday to provide financial support for the environmental remediation of residential playgrounds, thus passing a bill proposed by the Federal Council.