Child Rights

Social workers play a crucial role in child protection, often overlooked by the public. This blog emphasizes the positive impact of social workers who support families and advocate for children's welfare globally and calls for investment in preventative and responsive child protection services to ensure every child thrives ahead of the Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children.

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

Extreme weather events forced at least 38,000 people from their homes in Afghanistan in the first six month of this year

A Child Account from a 15-year-old Yazidi Girl, Viyan* who lives in an IDP camp, northern Iraq

Classes across the Philippines were suspended following a powerful typhoon that swept across the country.

"Harmful practices like FGM must never be allowed"

Children from Colombia’s Indigenous Wayuu community have composed a powerful song to draw attention to the drought and water scarcity.

Save the Children International launches its inaugural Global Media Awards to celebrate excellence in journalism for child rights.

As Thai children head back to school following a long summer break, a lack of funding has hindered many displaced children from Myanmar.

Save the Children press release on children speaking about how climate change is affecting their rights at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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.

Children in Pacific Island countries face increasing levels of violence, a Save the Children study has found.

About 73,900 households in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta have limited access to fresh water following a weeks-long heatwave. Save the Children.

Duarte Agostinho ECHR case: disappointing outcome for the six young applicants’ access to justice but children should not lose hope following Court’s

Mongolia’s extreme winter conditions, or Dzud, shows no sign of abating and Mongolia has lost 5.2 million livestock.

About 250 unaccompanied Rohingya children arrived in Indonesia in the last three months of 2023.

Flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have affected about 15,500 children and 40,000 families.

The devastating impact of the climate crisis on children in Colombia’s largest indigenous group, the Wayuu, is illustrated in this powerful series of

A new ‘Girls Unstoppable’ programme has its sights on freeing up girls from chores and care work and getting them into girls clubs.

Girl cricketers who joined forces on and off the pitch to campaign against child marriage take part in their first provincial ‘all-girls' tournament

A year that saw a rise to at least 5 million cases and 5,500 deaths from dengue fever globally across most continents, Vientiane – the capital of La

Flooding in Demak and Grobogan regencies of Central Java has displaced about 11,500 people, including at least 1,100 children.

Children in Bangkok breathed unhealthy air for 70% of the year in 2023, Save the Children said, as the Thai capital reels from its latest air crisis.

Daniel, 11, hardly saw his friends and had limited social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. Now, he's part of 'Play to Thrive'.

Rohingya refugee children who have been forced to flee Bangladesh and Myanmar are now asking authorities in Indonesia for more freedom to leave.

Children in Peru at the sharp end of the climate crisis have been given a huggable backpack

Children’s mental health suffers following deadly Japan quake, as many schools stay shut

Press release on participatory photo project by Save the Children in Colombia

“Listen to us”: What children want from COP28 children's voices

Save the Children press release on children and biobars in Cambodia

Quote from a long-standing Save the Children staff member in Gaza who is on the move with three children all aged under 10.

Humanitarian agencies operating in Gaza are reporting an unfolding humanitarian crisis on an unprecedented scale. There are not adequate facilities to

Anuska, a climate child activist from Nepal writes a poem about the Climate Crisis after attending the Climate March at UNGA.

Save the Children press release on the biggest climate case taken to the European Court of Human Rights

Ukrainian refugee children miss their family, friends, and pets, and worry about not knowing the local language

Arsenal’s Leah Williamson will make an impassioned plea to challenge gender stereotypes and level the playing field for girls around the world.

Save the Children child campaigner from Nepal and giant white bear travel from Nepal to New York

Clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in the south of Lebanon have closed schools and are putting children at direct risk

Most unaccompanied children seeking safety in Greece have their asylum claims rejected, leaving them without legal papers and vulnerable to abuse

Save the Children press release five ways heatwaves impact children's rights around the world

Cohort of Ukrainian school leavers opted to abstain from graduation this year with their final studies wrecked by 17 months of war

A girl will address the UN Security Council (UNSC) in New York in person today for the first time in its nearly 70-year history, using her experience

Children have taken photos of rubble and their homes in Syria

We spoke to Dilmani, a 16-year-old Sri Lankan climate activist. She shares her thoughts and experiences of being affected by climate change.

Children in Albania rehearse their play The Windmill to draw attention to the climate crisis

Press release on thousands of children at risk of separation, abuse and neglect with up to 15,000 people arriving at the Mexico-US border.

Only one in seven children globally are protected by laws against corporal punishment

Earth Day - giant white Air Bear will begin journey around Nepal to raise awareness of air pollution

A bitterly cold winter after a summer of drought has left herder families in Mongolia without livestock and facing severe food shortages

10 month old Jaiyan* is treated for severe acute malnutrition

Save the Children supports launch of new web series in Nepal

press release on the one year anniversary of the volcanic eruption in Tonga

Q&A with Anushka, a Young Climate Activist from Nepal that pledges everyone to do more to fight the Climate Crisis

Press Release on the ban of female NGO workers in Afghanistan and its effect on child labour

In this blog Sacha Myers, former Head of Media for Save the Children Afghanistan talks about the impact of the school ban on girls in Afghanistan. Read it to hear firsthand the stories of Afghan girls who have been turned from students into child labourers against their own will.

At least 100 children were on Wednesday confirmed to have died after a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia this week – accounting for about a third of all fatalities – with the race on to find any remaining survivors and to provide shelter and emergency supplies for families left homeless, Save the Children said.

Leaders at COP27 have taken a small but critical step in securing justice for children most affected by the climate crisis, by formally recognising children as agents of change and setting up a fund for loss and damage, Save the Children said. But far more needs to be done to secure children’s futures, and on World Children’s Day, the child rights organisation urges leaders to draw inspiration from the voices of children who were heard loudly at this COP.

Pressure ramps up on leaders to provide a secure future for children at COP27

Youth and Future Generations Day at COP27: Cambodian child climate activists battling pollution from their floating schools