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4 Oct 2024
Death rates from cholera outbreaks surge in Sudan and Nigeria as flooding, conflict hinder treatment
Death rates from major cholera outbreaks in Sudan and Nigeria have surged to up to three times the global average putting thousands of children at risk as cases continue to rise as conflict and flooding hamper access to treatment, said Save the Children.
3 Oct 2024
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AIDA Statement: One year of devastation: marking the unprecedented atrocity crimes and suffering in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
Statement from The Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) on the past year of the situation unfolding in Gaza.
3 Oct 2024
One in Six Children in Haiti one step away from famine conditions – Save the Children
One in six children in Haiti are now one step away from famine-like conditions.
2 Oct 2024
LEBANON: Shelters struggling to house families with an unprecedented one million people on the move and new relocation orders issued by Israeli military forces
At least one million people in Lebanon – a fifth of the population – are now displaced, with half leaving their homes in the past four days.
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First-ever International Day of Play marked to help children reach full potential
Today marks the first-ever International Day of Play, which has been declared by the United Nations General Assembly to champion and protect children.
UN ceasefire resolution must be enacted immediately to protect children from further violence and starvation - Save the Children
Statement - Save the Children IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN ceasefire resolution must be enacted immediately to protect children from further violence and s
New EU Parliament must put the needs of children at the centre of its political agenda – Save the Children
New EU Parliament must put the needs of children at the centre of its political agenda – Save the Children
PHILIPPINES: Mount Kanlaon eruption forces 385,000 children out of school
A volcanic eruption in the Philippines has forced at least 684 schools to close.
‘There is a wall between us’: As new school year begins in Thailand, funding shortages hinder education for refugee children on Myanmar border
As Thai children head back to school following a long summer break, a lack of funding has hindered many displaced children from Myanmar.
Floods in Sri Lanka kill 15 people and force four million children out of classrooms
While monsoon rains are normal in Sri Lanka, impacts such as flooding are now more frequent and severe due to climate change
Bonn conference: Number of children in crisis levels of hunger due to extreme weather events doubles in past five years – new analysis
Save the Children’s analysis showed that more than 33 million children and 39 million adults live in both the “crisis” phase 3 of hunger as determined by the IPC
HORN OF AFRICA: 600K CHILDREN AFFECTED BY DEVASTATING FLOODS AS TORRENTIAL RAINS THREATEN FURTHER HAVOC
Devastating floods and landslides have affected about 600,000 children across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia so far this year.