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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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Half of out-of-school children live in countries most vulnerable to climate change, with Philippines latest to shut schools due to extreme weather
Around one in two out-of-school children and adolescents live in countries at the forefront of the climate crisis, Save the Children analysis finds.
Over 2% of Gaza’s child population killed or injured in six months of war
Nearly 26,000 children – or just over two percent of Gaza’s child population – have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months of a war which has decimated the health system and severed access to education
“We go to sleep hungry”: Children surviving on boiled waterlily roots and wild fruits as drought devastates 50% of Zambia’s food crops
Save the Children press release on failed crops in Zambia due to drought
Time is running out for international action to protect civilians and prevent atrocity crimes in Rafah, as UN Security Council resolution is ignored
Time is running out for action to protect civilians and prevent atrocity crimes in Rafah
PHILIPPINES: Heatwave forces hundreds of schools to shut with classes moved online to beat the heat
Extreme heat in the Philippines has forced hundreds of schools to shut as its government warns temperatures could soar further this week.
Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan
Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan The children - five boys and four girls, all aged between 5 and 10 - found the decades old mi
“It’s not fair to die of hunger” - The lives of malnourished children in Gaza endangered by obliteration and obstruction of medical care
Malnourished children in Gaza are not getting the food and medical care they need to survive
DRC: Violence in North Kivu forces over 500 schools to close, with teachers kidnapped and students terrified
Violence in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced 540 schools to close in the past year.
