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31 Oct 2024

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World more dangerous than ever for children with crimes in conflict at highest level in 2023

  • Save the Children report reveals the number of grave violations committed against children in conflict reached highest level ever in 2023, with over 31,000 documented cases

  • An average of 31 children a day killed or maimed

  • Biggest increases in crimes against children recorded in the occupied Palestinian territory and Sudan 

  • 473 million children – or 19% of the world’s child population – lived under the weight of war in 2023

  • The cost of conflict skyrocketed to US $19.1 trillion last year, while investments in peace and conflict prevention remained low –with a $4 trillion gap needed to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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30 Oct 2024

Over 2.8 million children under five forced from their home across Sudan

New figures reveal over half of the 11 million displaced – or 5.8 million - are children under 18, and over one quarter – or 2.8 million - are children aged under five. 

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29 Oct 2024

LEBANON: At least two children killed every day in five weeks of war

The humanitarian situation in Lebanon continues to rapidly deteriorate; the latest Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed at least 60 people, including two children. Over 100 children – an average of 2 children a day – have been killed since the war started on 23 September, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.

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28 Oct 2024

PHILIPPINES: Education disrupted for more than 90% of school children in wake of Storm Trami

The storm, which prompted widespread evacuations and affected 805,000 families, has disrupted learning for more than 19 million students.

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Maher*, 8, Idlib, North West . Syria

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Children in conflict at highest risk of violence since records began

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Save the Children delivers 36,000 face masks to Wuhan

Save the Children delivers 36,000 face masks to Wuhan

Former child soldier Nzitonda*, 14, sits behind a curtain in North Kivu, DRC.

Over 55,000 grave crimes committed against children in African conflict zones in five years alone

Over 55,000 grave crimes committed against children in African conflict zones in five years alone

Alia* is 10 years old from Ghouta in Syria. She was critically injured in a mine explosion when she was just four years old

U.S. Land Mine Policy Change Endangers Children

ChildFund International, Plan International, Save the Children, and the Terre des hommes Foundation are deeply troubled by the decision of the U.S. government to allow anti-personnel land mine use by the United States military around the world