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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.

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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

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Bailasan*, 13, and her mother Maryam*, 50, walk by the river where drought has caused a water crisis in North East Syria

Conflict, climate disasters drive number of internally displaced children to record 25 million in 2021

Conflict, climate disasters drive number of internally displaced children to record 25 million in 2021

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Save the Children signs deal to lead on climate change adaptation in the Pacific where children bear the brunt of extreme weather

Save the Children signs deal to lead on climate change adaptation in the Pacific where children bear the brunt of extreme weather

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Girls in South Sudan and Iraq displaced by conflict tell of increased risk of child marriage, pregnancy, violence, and mental health issues

Girls in South Sudan and Iraq displaced by conflict tell of increased risk of child marriage, pregnancy, violence, and mental health issues

Leylo*, 28, photographed with her four-month-old son, Assad*, and her 12-year-old son, Yuusuf*, in a camp in Baidoa

One person likely dying from hunger every 48 seconds in drought-ravaged East Africa as world again fails to heed warnings

One person is likely dying of hunger every 48 seconds in drought-ravaged Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, according to estimates by Oxfam and Save the Children in a report published today highlighting the world’s repeated failure to stave off preventable disasters.

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India: children and families struggle through yet another extreme heatwave

India: children and families struggle through yet another extreme heatwave

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Rates of child marriage double amongst thousands of children displaced by conflict in Cabo Delgado

Rates of child marriage double amongst thousands of children displaced by conflict in Cabo Delgado

Fatima* 14 Bangladesh

Believe in yourself, play sport, draw: Child refugees advice to children fleeing Ukraine

Believe in yourself, play sport, draw: Child refugees advice to children fleeing Ukraine

 Issa*, aged 13, walking home from school in Tillaberi region, Niger.

More than 1 in 3 children under five at risk of starvation in Central Sahel

More than one-third of children under five in Africa’s Central Sahel – or about four million - are at risk of starvation in coming weeks as the region faces one of the world’s fastest-growing hunger crises, Save the Children said today.