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17 Oct 2024
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Save the Children announces finalists of the Global Media Awards 2024
Save the Children is proud to announce the finalists for its inaugural Global Media Awards 2024, representing outlets from around the world whose innovative & impactful reporting has raised awareness about the challenges & achievements of children whose unique rights were first recognised exactly 100 years ago.
17 Oct 2024
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West and Central Africa: About 10 million children forced out of schools by worst flooding in recent years
The unprecedented heavy rains across Nigeria, Mali, Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have created a worsening education crisis.
14 Oct 2024
Nowhere safe in Gaza as attacks in the north and hospital ablaze in the south put the lives of children and families at risk
Up to 400,000 Palestinians are trapped across northern Gaza, and a deadly fire is spreading through Gaza's Al-Aqsa hospital sheltering thousands in the so-called “humanitarian zone” following an Israeli airstrike.
14 Oct 2024
SUDAN: OVER 2 MILLION BABIES BORN INTO 18 MONTHS OF DEVASTATING CONFLICT
It is estimated that about 4,000 babies are born on average every day in Sudan, which has entered its 18th month of conflict.
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EU adopts historic Directive requiring large companies to focus on children’s rights
Large companies operating in the European Union will have to take child rights into consideration when they carry out due diligence processes.
Children to tell Inter-American Court of Human Rights how climate change is affecting them in historic hearing
Save the Children press release on children speaking about how climate change is affecting their rights at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
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EGYPT: Palestinian children who fled Gaza’s war haunted by nightmares and anxiety
Palestinian children who fled to Egypt from the war in Gaza are haunted by the horrors they experienced and are struggling with nightmares.
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More than half of Pakistan’s school age children will be out of school due to extreme heat
More than half of Pakistan’s school age children – about 26 million - will be locked out of classrooms for a week due to an ongoing heat wave.
Displaced again: Over 700 children in Ukraine flee northern Kharkiv as fighting intensifies
At least 700 children have been evacuated from border towns in Ukraine's northern Kharkiv region after intensified fighting displaced thousands.
Afghanistan floods: ‘There is no life left for us here. You want to put your head in your hands and shout and cry.’
Afghanistan floods: ‘There is no life left for us here. You want to put your head in your hands and shout and cry.’
NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ARRIVING IN SPAIN NEARLY TRIPLES SO FAR THIS YEAR
About20,000 migrants, including more than 1,500 children, arrived in Spain in the first four months of 2024, with 80% headed to the Canary Islands.
GAZA: Families fleeing Rafah say they are being ‘killed slowly’ as forced to move again
Many Families in Gaza are being forced to flee for the fifth time in seven months while supporting elderly relative and injured children as Israeli fo
