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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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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WEST AFRICA FLOODS: Nearly 950,000 people displaced and children sheltering in schools just weeks before school term starts

Hundreds of thousands of children now displaced from their homes are facing disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to their education

Vehicles struggle to move through flood-affected roads in South Kordofan

Sudan: Major cholera outbreak as heavy rains hit displacement camps and no end to fighting

Thousands of children in eastern Sudan are at risk of cholera following a major outbreak caused by widespread flooding.

Flood waters in Sanghar district in Sindh province

Pakistan: Over half of flood-related deaths are children as heavy rains displace thousands

More than 150 children killed by floods and heavy rains in #Pakistan since July - over half of all deaths with thousands displaced.

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STATEMENT: BABY AMONG THOSE KILLED IN DEADLY ATTACKS IN UKRAINE

"Even far away from the frontline children can never be truly safe from attacks"

Refugee children from Ukraine play together at a Save the Children Counselling Hub. Bucharest, Romania, December 2023.

UNIQLO AND MAGNUM PHOTOS LAUNCH GLOBAL EXHIBITION CAPTURING LIVES OF CHILDREN IN CONFLICT AND CRISIS

A powerful new photography exhibition documenting the lives of children experiencing conflict and crisis

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THREE IN FOUR CHILDREN IN UKRAINE LIVE IN FEAR AS ATTACKS ONCE AGAIN ESCALATE

Three in four children in Ukraine are living in constant fear amid an escalating mental health crisis, with recent missile and drone attacks

Mpox rash on a patient following a rapid spread of the virus in DRC

DRC: Child mpox cases surge 75-fold in worst hit province as schools restart this week

Press release Save the Children mpox spreading South Kivu DRC children

Zain, 13, washes his face from a hand pump, outside their climate resilient family home.

One third of children worldwide exposed to extreme heatwaves as temperatures hit record highs, new report reveals

One-third of the total global child population—or 766 million children—were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the year between July 2023 and June 2024