Violence

Save the Children worker Amar Osman* shares his account from the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan as violence continues across the country.

"Since the start of the rains in June, flooding has added another layer of difficulty to delivering humanitarian aid to people in dire need"

Heavy rains in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria have led to the worst flooding in 30 years, affecting at least 239,000 people

Increased rates of acute malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has put millions at heightened risk of contracting and dying of mpox

Save the Children has launched its “Delete the Children” campaign in Korea to ramp-up protection of children’s images online. AI crisis.

Press release Save the Children mpox spreading South Kivu DRC children

As children in Vietnam prepare to head back to school, many face safety risks due to damaged infrastructure after floods. Save the Children.

Save the Children staff account from a physician who has dedicated his medical skills to helping children in Gaza.

Children are particularly vulnerable to the new strain of the deadly mpox virus that is spreading globally

Save the Children press release Gaza school airstrike 100 killed children

Massive landslides in India’s southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people. More than 1,580 children displaced. Save the Children.

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

The scale of human trafficking in Sri Lanka has risen alarmingly. Find out what Save the Children is doing to counteract this growing crisis.

Hundreds of children living in the remote Gofa zone of Southern Ethiopia remain at risk of death and injury from rain-induced disasters

After a year of record-breaking temperatures, it is important to understand how extreme heat affects children

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

A ban on female genital mutilation was nearly reversed in The Gambia but through civil rights campaigning it was prevented

Extreme heat puts children’s health at risk, locking them out of education and making them increasingly anxious about the future

Thousands of children in Pakistan at risk of deadly disease as monsoon rains start

"Harmful practices like FGM must never be allowed"

Floods from heavy rains have killed about 40 people in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes Save the Children said.

An estimated 50,000 babies have been born in Gaza over nine months of conflict, with many women giving birth in traumatic, unhygienic and undignified conditions

The violence has also led to the widespread destruction of property and displacement

The number of children killed, injured or facing other grave violations in Sudan soared six-fold in 2023 to a record high

Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estimated to be lost, disappeared, detained, buried under the rubble or in mass graves

Sierra Leone has one of the highest child marriage, early pregnancy and maternal mortality rates in the world

Formal mechanism to monitor and report on crimes against children in the occupied Palestinian territory must be established, after perpetrators listed

India’s heatwave shows no sign of abating as the country’s meteorological department warned of extreme heat.

Explainer outlining the power of play and it's importance for the development of children globally.

A staff account from a health manager working in Sudan. In this blog he speaks about how the conflict is impacting people in North Darfur.

While monsoon rains are normal in Sri Lanka, impacts such as flooding are now more frequent and severe due to climate change

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

Save the Children press release on response to landslide in Papua New Guinea

Aid agencies including Save the Children, who work on education in Sudan, warn that the country is on the brink of the worst education crisis in the world

Save the Children has sent four emergency response teams to support in the recovery

Afghanistan: Nearly three in ten children forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, new figures show.

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.

A protracted drought across large swathes of the Philippines is impacting over 900,000 families

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

The orders follow a night of intense bombardment in Rafah, killing at least 22 people including eight children

Armed groups have trapped more than 140,000 people, including over 80,000 children, in the town of Menaka in Mali.

Guide on "What to do when you are parenting under pressure"

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures brought about by a heatwave.

It will take another 60 years to meet a global target to eliminate of all forms of corporal punishment unless the current rate of progress is sped up.

Extreme heat has forced the closure of all schools in Bangladesh this week, impacting 33 million children

Thousands of community health workers in Cote d’Ivoire are tackling malaria by cycling between remote villages to treat children and educate families.

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

Save the Children press release on families returning from Pakistan to Afghanistan

Save the Children press release on Sudan raising one fifth of funds raised for Notre Dame cathedral

As Thailand gears up to celebrate world’s biggest water fight, extreme weather risks dampening children’s joy.

Monica* is a 25-year-old woman, who was born in South Sudan but fled to Sudan in 2013 when war broke out and had to flee back to South Sudan last year

During one year of war in Sudan more than 10 million children have been in an active warzone

A month-by-month account of Bisan's experiences of 6 months of war in Gaza.

Extreme heat in the Philippines has forced hundreds of schools to shut as its government warns temperatures could soar further this week.

Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan The children - five boys and four girls, all aged between 5 and 10 - found the decades old mi

bout 1,000 people a day are fleeing into South Sudan from Sudan after nearly one year of war, arriving in scorching heat and with children in dire nee

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

Over half of the world’s people living in poverty are children. Expanding child-centered social protection programs is proven to reduce child poverty.

More than 8,700 people including 3,700 children from indigenous and rural communities affected Classrooms and health centers submerged under water, crop losses are exacerbating hunger, and lack of water has led to disease outbreaks.

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

A boat carrying Rohingya refugees reportedly capsized off the coast of Kuala Bubon in Indonesia.

Save the Children press release on hunger in Gaza showing children and families facing imminent famine

Two neighbouring southern Africa nations are battling completely opposite weather disasters this month, with Zambia experiencing its worst drought in

Five months into this war, conditions to provide food to children in Gaza are getting worse. This Ramadan in Gaza, things are the wrong way round.

Thirteen years of conflict in Syria have led to fear, loss and mass displacement for children. What does the future look like for Syria?

More than one million children in Haiti – a quarter of the nation’s children – are living in areas controlled or under the influence of armed groups.

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

Five months of violence, displacement, starvation and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza

Guide by child psychologist with tips on what to do when children want to talk about war.

Save the Children press release on alternative aid delivery including ports and airdrops

Women and children fleeing deadly violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have reported surviving gruesome sexual attacks.

Girls in Sierra Leone are stuck in a poverty, health complications, violence & dependency cycle, resulting in one of the highest child marriage rates.

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

More than 1 in 73 people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes. This number has almost doubled in the past ten years.

A crisis. A horror. A tragedy. All words we’ve heard many times over to describe the situation in Gaza. All woefully insufficient.

Violence must end after rape of 13-year-old girl in displacement camp in Somalia – Save the Children

“Ask Save the Children” is a generative Artificial Intelligence tool intended to equip teachers, community leaders, and child protection professionals

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.

Save the Children analysis released during the 37th African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa show dramatic rise in violence.

Two children have been killed and three others seriously injured in southern Yemen following a landmine explosion on Monday.

About 97,000 families have been forced to flee their homes due to landslides and flooding in the Philippines’ southern region of Mindanao.

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

New digital technology is constantly evolving and impacting the way children learn, play and interact. These tips can help you keep them safe.

They may not always make the news, but these crises impact millions of people, including vulnerable children, around the world

Save the Children press release on UN Habitat agreement to support urban children

Save the Children press release on cholera in Zambia schools closed

Olga Shults, Save the Children’s Food Security and Livelihoods manager, Ukraine, explains the hard choices families have to make when forced to flee.

Severe climate disasters, violent conflicts, and deepening inequalities and economic shocks are shattering the lives of children

Press release Save the Children on fire in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing shares the challenges children faced in 2023 in places such as Sudan and Gaza.

Statement in response to the UN Security Council’s vote to pass a resolution on aid delivery in Gaza

The Government of Israel’s military actions are pushing children and families in Gaza towards famine, Save the Children warned today

Save the Children's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in partnership with the Inter American Press Association and the Gabo Foundat

Refugee children globally fear discrimination and exclusion from schooling, violence in camps and the community, and want a say in their future

Number of grave violations against children in conflict rose 13% in 2022 to average 76 a day– Save the Children

Blog summarizing the importance of spotlighting the rights and needs of refugee children at the Global Refugee Forum

"WE ARE FAILING THE CHILDREN OF GAZA”: CONDITIONS TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN IN GAZA ARE NOT MET

Blog focusing in the situation on Turkiye as a country that hosts over 3.6 million refugees, ahead of the Global Refugee Forum.

Press release about Save the Children campaign for migrants in Brussels

Water shortages linked to climate change exacerbating the risks to children in Gaza conflict – Save the Children

Save the Children’s Country Director of the occupied Palestinian territory shares his experience of visiting Gaza.

‘Nowhere to go’ - Over one million children in Gaza at risk of being killed

Dengue Fever: At least 5 million cases and 5,500 deaths in horror year

Save the Children says failure to extend pause is a death sentence for children as bombardment of Gaza resumes

Blog putting a spotlight on Ethiopia, ahead of the Global Refugee Forum which is taking place in December 2023

Siege in Timbuktu: Nearly 74,000 children trapped in city and running out of food.

What does ‘investing in girls’ look like in practice? Here are 16 practical tips to make a difference.

Save the Children press release on more than 400 Rohingya children in Indonesia

Major outbreak of disease escalating in camps as 250,000 people, mostly children, return to Afghanistan from Pakistan

Over the past year, the Sponsorship programme has been challenging itself to adapt, design, measure, and programme to address discrimination.

Colombia is home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world. Here's what you need to know about the situation there.

Save the Children press release about children in Nepal missing festival due to earthquake

Save the Children statement on earthquake in Nepal that has caused children to survive outside in freezing temperatures

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan has left many individuals displaced, vulnerable, and inadequately supported

Save the Children press release on children crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Op-ed describing the dire situation faced by civilians and children in Gaza right now

Save the Children press release on cyclones in Vanuatu marking an early start to cyclone season

As the violence continues in Gaza, civilians continue to pay the heaviest price. These are the testimonies of Save the Children staff.

At least 2,000 children killed in Gaza as airstrikes continue unabated

Save the Children has reunited Simon* with his brother Samuel* in South Sudan - the 7,000th reunification by the child rights organisation