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Oleksandr* (15) & his mother Svitlana* (41) lived under occupation in the Mykolaiv region during the war in Ukraine

UKRAINE: MENTAL HEALTH TOLL OF WAR LEAVES CHILDREN WITH SPEECH DEFECTS, TWITCHING, AND SLEEP DISORDERS

Analysis of Save the Children’s case management data from January to June 2024 reveals 43% of these children are suffering from psychosocial distress. 

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Penguin Random House donates 1 million books to Save the Children to celebrate 10 years of partnership and help boost literacy

Penguin Random House will donate one million books to Save the Children over the next three years to celebrate 10 years of partnership and to help boost children’s access to books at a time when millions of children are struggling to gain basic literacy skills.

Drawings created by children attending child friendly space

Families resorting to desperate measures with no end in sight to famine conditions in Sudan's Zamzam camp

Families living in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp are resorting to desperate measure like eating one meal a day and some as far as eating animal feed to survive after four months of famine has children facing extreme food shortages with 19 months of fighting taking toll on besieged North Darfur region, Save the Children said.

Vepaiamele, 15, takes part in a climate demonstration outside the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.

Pacific youth hope historic hearing in The Hague delivers climate justice where COP did not

Vanuatu, along with a group of Pacific Island law students, have spearheaded the move to seek an advisory opinion from the ICJ that will define the legal obligations of countries to take climate action.

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SAVE THE CHILDREN CONDEMNS KILLING OF STAFF MEMBER IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN GAZA

Save the Children condemns killing of staff member in Israeli air strike in Gaza

Outside of Emir's* Tent

NEWS QUOTE: Latest escalation of violence in Syria another blow to children as eight killed and thousands forced to flee

Save the Children is alarmed by reports that children have been killed and displaced in the latest escalation of violence in northwestern Syria.
 

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Burundi: Number of children facing malnutrition doubles to one in four as country battles worsening Mpox outbreak

Around 484,000 children are expected to suffer malnutrition in coming months, a figure that has more than doubled since 2022.

Children's feet standing in a puddle

Gaza: Heavy rains flood camps raising risk of disease for 235,000 children

About 235,000 children forced from their homes by bombs, bullets and displacement orders in Gaza are at risk of disease as heavy rains flood tents and turn camps into swamps.

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