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9 Dec 2024

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Saving Lives Amid Blockades: How Save the Children brought hope to Gaza

Since August 2024, families across Gaza have faced an escalating humanitarian crisis and extreme food shortages. Save the Children International launched an urgent operation to deliver lifesaving food aid to the most vulnerable communities in northern and southern Gaza.

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Vanuatu Teen Climate Activist to Address Historic Climate Justice Hearings at the International Court of Justice

Vepaia, a young climate activist from Vanuatu, is heading to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to testify, advocating for the inclusion of children’s rights in the climate justice debate, and calling for an advisory opinion that acknowledges states’ obligations to tackle the climate crisis and protect future generations.

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25 Nov 2024

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ONLINE SAFETY: TIPS FOR KEEPING YOUR TEENAGERS SAFE

We have worked with Save the Children’s experts in online safety to develop tips for parents, teachers, leaders of children’s clubs, social workers and anyone else who may interact with teenagers to help them stay safe online.

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25 Sep 2024

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Five ways the rights of children have progressed in the past 100 years

Children’s lives have changed for the better in many ways in the 100 years since the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child were endorsed

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Stephen Kang singing with children in Save the Children's Child Friendly Space in Transit Centre 1 in Renk, South Sudan

After fleeing the war in Sudan myself, I can relate to children who have faced the same ordeal.

Almost 1 year on since the conflict broke out in Sudan, colleague Stephen provides an account on what fleeing the conflict to South Sudan was like.

Siblings Halima*, 6, Kamelah*, 18-months-old and Omfaruk*, 8, at their home in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Ending Child Poverty is a Policy Choice

Over half of the world’s people living in poverty are children. Expanding child-centered social protection programs is proven to reduce child poverty.

A young boy holds some bread on a street in North Gaza.

This Ramadan in Gaza, there will be no dates to break the fast.

Five months into this war, conditions to provide food to children in Gaza are getting worse. This Ramadan in Gaza, things are the wrong way round.

Weam*, 8 and his mother Feryal* in a tent reading a book together

I'm a Syrian and a Humanitarian: What 13 years of conflict really looks like

Thirteen years of conflict in Syria have led to fear, loss and mass displacement for children. What does the future look like for Syria?

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Five tips on how to talk to children about war

Guide by child psychologist with tips on what to do when children want to talk about war.

Cousins Kuji*, 19 and Kpemeh*, 18 wear their Ending Child Marriage Champion t shirts in Kailahun, Sierra Leone

Fighting Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone

Girls in Sierra Leone are stuck in a poverty, health complications, violence & dependency cycle, resulting in one of the highest child marriage rates.

Aerial photos for the damage caused by the floods that hit Southern Somalia on May 2023

Everything you should know about refugees and internally displaced people

More than 1 in 73 people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes. This number has almost doubled in the past ten years.

Destruction in Khan Younis, Gaza.

When words fail, we must turn to the law

A crisis. A horror. A tragedy. All words we’ve heard many times over to describe the situation in Gaza. All woefully insufficient.