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Tetiana* (2) was born a month after full-scale war broke out in Ukraine

UKRAINE: HALF A MILLION BABIES BORN INTO FEAR AND VIOLENCE IN 1,000 DAYS OF WAR

New analysis, released on World Children’s Day, shows more than half a million babies have been born in Ukraine between February 2022 and August 2024.

Children playing in the playground of the new-built climate friendly school in Khairpur, Sindh Province, Pakistan

Pakistan: New climate resilient school opens where more than 2 million children still lack adequate classrooms after 2022 floods

A new climate resilient school built to withstand extreme weather has opened in Pakistan’s Sindh province, where just one in five of the nearly 20,000 schools that were destroyed or damaged in catastrophic flooding two years ago have been or are being rebuilt, Save the Children said.

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Australia’s social media ban for under 16s could put children at greater risk

While Australia’s government’s desire to keep children and young people safe online is welcome, Save the Children Australia said the focus should be on mechanisms to hold social media corporations to account and on responses that would address root causes of harm. 

An apartment building damaged in an attack in eastern Ukraine

CALL TO PROTECT CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE AFTER 2 CHILDREN REPORTED KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN WEEKEND OF ATTACKS

It’s been reported that six children were injured when the southern cities of Odessa and Mykolaiv were attacked.  

Cropped CH11194057 for SCI website  Ash cloud in East Nusa, Indonesia, following a volcanic eruption

INDONESIA: Children forced to learn in tents after volcanic eruption closes schools and displaces 15,000 people

A deadly volcanic eruption in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province has displaced more than 15,000 people and disrupted the education of around 5,300 students[1], Save the Children said.

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Children participate in G20 for the first time, calling for action on hunger, poverty and climate change

The teenagers - aged 16 and 17 years old - will deliver a letter to G20 leaders during the G20 Social Summit on 14 November, which includes messages from children around the world. 

Maysa*, 28, holding her son Khalid*, 3, in the camp where the family is displaced in Syria

ABOUT 300,000 CHILDREN HAVE FLED LEBANON TO SYRIA, WHERE AID NEEDS HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER

About 300,000 children have fled from Lebanon to Syria in the past seven weeks to seek safety from the worsening conflict, only to arrive in a country where humanitarian needs have never been higher. We have multimedia content to accompany this press release: www.contenthubsavethechildren.org/Package/2O4C2S11VJ1U

Sofiya* (13) was forced from her home in Kherson when the war started in Ukraine

COLD SNAP HITS UKRAINE AS CHILDREN LIVING IN DAMAGED HOMES FACE HARDEST WINTER SINCE WAR BEGAN

This winter is predicted to be the toughest yet for children and their families since the full-scale war broke out almost three years ago due to a combination of weather conditions, infrastructure damage, power blackouts and a lack of access to essential services such as healthcare.