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24 May 2024
EU adopts historic Directive requiring large companies to focus on children’s rights
Large companies operating in the European Union will have to take child rights into consideration when they carry out due diligence processes.
23 Nov 2023
BASRA, IRAQ: Living in ‘one of the hottest places on earth’ – Photo essay shows how children survive drought, water shortages
Press release and photo essay showing impact of drought on children in Basra, Iraq
30 Nov 2023
ETHIOPIA: At least 23 killed as a new cholera outbreak poses deadly threat to thousands of displaced children
A new cholera outbreak in Ethiopia’s Somali region is exacerbating suffering for thousands of children and families recently displaced by floods
22 Jul 2024
Physical abuse, infectious disease spreading as conditions for Palestinian children in Israeli military detention deteriorate
Press release on physical abuse, disease and sexual violence spreading in Israeli-run prisons.
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Save the Children staff member in Gaza who is on the move with three children all aged under 10.
Quote from a long-standing Save the Children staff member in Gaza who is on the move with three children all aged under 10.
Urgent plea to avert unprecedented humanitarian crisis amid looming Israeli land incursion into Gaza
Humanitarian agencies operating in Gaza are reporting an unfolding humanitarian crisis on an unprecedented scale. There are not adequate facilities to
STATEMENT - Save the Children CEO calls for the protection of children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory
Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing:“We are extremely concerned about the worsening situation in the oPt & Israel.
At least 17 children killed in wave of violence across Syria
At least 17 children are reported to have been killed, and hundreds of others injured, in five days of violence across Syria
One third more girls set to face double blow of climate change and child marriage by 2050 – study
The number of girls at extreme risk of facing the double blow of climate change and child marriage is set to increase 33% to nearly 40M by 2050
19 million children in Sudan out of school as conflict rages on – UNICEF, Save the Children
19 million children in Sudan out of school as conflict rages on – UNICEF, Save the Children
Yazidi children with disabilities face bullying, loneliness, nine years after genocide - report
Yazidi children with disabilities face bullying, loneliness, nine years after genocide - report
“Children are paying the heaviest price as violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory escalates”
As the escalation in Israel and Gaza intensifies, the number of children caught up in the violence is soaring.