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NEWS QUOTE FROM COP29 - “It will be bad for me to go home without any good news for children” – Maxwell, 15 from South Sudan
As COP29 is coming to an end, Save the Children and child campaigners in Baku remind world leaders that children’s rights must be at the centre of negotiations over the climate finance goal.
South Sudan: Conflict and flooding fuels food crisis with 30% more children to face malnutrition
This includes more than 650,000 children expected to be facing the most deadly form of malnutrition – severe acute malnutrition - a rise of 30% from 480,000.
Youth deploy drones in Malawi markets to map garbage hotspots and wipe out disease
The group of 16 young activists are using the drones to identify, from the sky, parts of the market where waste accumulates or where illegal dumping sites have been established.
Save the Children announces winners of first Global Media Awards marking 100 years of child rights
We are delighted to announce the winners of our inaugural Global Media Awards, which celebrate excellence in journalism focused on child rights and the dedicated journalists who bring these important stories to light.
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.
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.
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.
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.
