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GAZA’S CHILDREN WILL CONTINUE TO BE KILLED AS UN SECURITY COUNCIL AGAIN FAILS TO PASS CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION

The more than one million children trapped in Gaza will continue to be exposed to bombs, guns and starvation

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SYRIA: ALMOST 50% FEWER REPATRIATIONS SO FAR THIS YEAR OF FOREIGN CHILDREN TRAPPED IN UNSAFE CAMPS, FIVE YEARS SINCE FALL OF ISIS

Almost 50% fewer foreign children and women have been repatriated so far this year in syria

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

Cholera kills 54 people in Somalia with cases rising – Save the Children

Cholera kills 54 people in Somalia with cases rising – Save the Children

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FIVE-FOLD INCREASE IN CHILDREN UPROOTED BY VIOLENCE IN WEST AFRICA’S CENTRAL SAHEL

Escalating violence has led to a five-fold surge in the number of children forced from their homes over the past five years in central Sahel.

Intense rains and floods close schools, destroy crops in the Peruvian Amazon

Intense rains and floods close schools, destroy crops in the Peruvian Amazon

  • More than 8,700 people including 3,700 children from indigenous and rural communities affected 

  • Classrooms and health centers submerged under water, crop losses are exacerbating hunger, and lack of water has led to disease outbreaks. 

A group of Rohingya children play puzzles in a session carried out by the Geutanyoe Foundation, Save the Children's local partner, in a camp in Aceh, Indonesia.

Spike in arrivals of unaccompanied Rohingya children in Indonesia highlights increasing desperation – Save the Children

About 250 unaccompanied Rohingya children arrived in Indonesia in the last three months of 2023.

Children drew some boats on the wall of a room in the Rohingya camp in Aceh

"No person should have to make a dangerous journey in search of a better life" says Save the Children after boat carrying Rohingya capsizes off coast of Indonesia

A boat carrying Rohingya refugees reportedly capsized off the coast of Kuala Bubon in Indonesia.

A woman with an empty pan in Gaza

“I am seeing my son dying and I can’t do anything”: Children and families in Northern Gaza just weeks away from famine

Save the Children press release on hunger in Gaza showing children and families facing imminent famine

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