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11 Oct 2024
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A girl marries every 30 seconds in countries ranked fragile and child marriage hotspots – New Report
Save the Children’s latest Global Girlhood Report 2024: Fragile Futures released on International Day of the Girl reveals devastating link between child marriage and fragile states.
10 Oct 2024
GAZA: AT LEAST 3,100 CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE KILLED WITH OTHERS AT RISK AS FAMINE LOOMS
The occupied Palestinian territory is now ranked as the deadliest place in the world for children: about 30% of the 11,300 identified children killed in Gaza were younger than five and Gaza currently has the highest rates of child malnutrition globally.
9 Oct 2024
Education disrupted for sixth year for 1.5 million children in Lebanon, with half of public schools used as shelters
This is the sixth year of significant disruptions to education for children in Lebanon, who have been hit by multiple complex crises for decades without being able to fully recover.
9 Oct 2024
STAFF ACCOUNTS: Siege and bombardment of Sudan’s El Fasher pushes children, adults to the limits of survival
Eight aid workers describe their experiences of the brutality of the constant bombardment in El Fasher.
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NEW ANALYSIS – Afghanistan tops list of 7 countries where children were most in need in 2022
The number of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20% this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the DRC most severely impacted.
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Photographers capture the lives of children who fled and those who stayed in Ukraine
Save the Children Impact Investment Fund is finalist at the 2022 Australian Impact Investment Awards
SC Impact Investment Fund finalist at 2022 Australian Impact Investment Awards
More than half a million children in Somalia expected to face the most deadly form of malnutrition by next April
Malnutrition in Somalia on the rise in children according to new figures
Number of children facing catastrophic hunger to soar 11-fold in Burkina Faso by mid-2023
The number of children facing catastrophic hunger in Burkina Faso could skyrocket up to 11-fold in the next 6 months.
Save the Children, UNICEF and France launch new handbook to strengthen bid to end the recruitment and use of children in conflict
Press release joint UNICEF Paris Principles child recruitment
Groundbreaking global Humanitarian Sanctions Exemption will impact millions
Following the passing of a global humanitarian sanctions exemption
Funds needed as conflict, climate change and forced displacement drives 3.6 million children out of school in Ethiopia
Save the children education Ethiopia