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22 June 2007 Education target will be missed
Save the Children warns that at lest 30 million children, most living in conflict affected countries, are still likely to be out of school by 2015, the target year for the Millenium Development Goals. Read our animated report, The Story of the Future , which shows that the current trend of providing education for more than 4 million children a year is not enough to reach the 2015 education target the world set itself in 2000.
22 May 2007 World’s richest countries failing to help children affected by conflict
The world’s richest countries, Australia included, are failing to help put an end to devastating impact of conflict in 28 countries, leaving almost 40 million children facing a bleak future, Save the Children has revealed according to a new report. [Adobe PDF, 90 Kb]
9 May 2007 State of the World's Mothers Report 2007
To commemorate Mother’s Day, Save the Children Australia is calling attention to the health and well-being of mothers and young children under the age of 5 around the world. This year’s State of the World’s Mothers examines the latest data and trends in the field of child survival and presents a compelling case for why the world must do more to prevent death among children under age 5. The report includes the first-ever Child Survival Progress Rankings that look at 60 developing countries, which together account for 94 percent of all child deaths, showing which countries are succeeding - and which are failing - to save the lives of children under the age of 5. [Adobe PDF, 127 Kb]
9 May 2007 A Mother's Day Report Card 2007
Save the Children, the world’s largest independent child rights organisation, has released its eighth annual State of the World's Mothers Report, which incorporates the Mothers’ Index that ranks the best – and worst – places to be a mother and a child, and compares the well-being of mothers and children in 140 countries. [Adobe PDF, 129 Kb]
12 April 2007 Save the Children and ANZ partner for appeal
Following on from their generous donation last week to the tsunami affected Solomon Islands, ANZ has again joined with Save the Children Australia in an effort to raise funds for the disaster. [Adobe PDF, 24 Kb]
4 April 2007 Solomon Islands Update
Save the Children Australia has reacted quickly to the recent tsunami in Gizo in the Solomon Islands. [Adobe PDF, 25 Kb]
3 April 2007 Save the Children in the Solomon Islands: Emergency Appeal Launched
Save the Children today launched an Emergency Appeal in response to the tsunami devastated Solomon Islands.The western provincial capital of Gizo was hit by a powerful10-metre tsunami as a result of an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, which struck on Monday. [Adobe PDF, 25 Kb]
20 February 2007 Operation Gives Shepparton Youth a New Start
Victoria Police and Save the Children Australia launched the first regional branch of Operation Newstart today in Shepparton. [Adobe PDF, 82 Kb]
6 February 2007 Blood diamonds, gold and copper: over a million children's lives endangered by mining
While the film “Blood Diamond” is receiving acclaim around the world, more than one million children are risking death or severe injury and missing out on school because they are working in mines. Sierra Leone, where “Blood Diamond” is set, is one of over 50 countries in the world where children are exploited daily in the hazardous mining of minerals, including diamonds. [Adobe PDF, 18 Kb]
5 February 2007 Child Soldiers actively recruited as frontline fodder
Child soldiers being actively recruited as frontline fodder in at least 13 countries: Ten years after international guidelines were established to stamp out the recruitment and use of child soldiers, under-age fighters are still actively being recruited in at least 13 countries. [Adobe PDF, 27 Kb]
21 December 2006 Rebuilding Lives After The Tsunami: The Children's Road to Recovery
Two years have passed since the devastating South Asia tsunami of December 2004. While the world's focus has largely moved on, the children and families living in the wake of the disaster, still face a long road to recovery. [101 Kb]
27 October 2006 Save the Children Australia CEO wins National Award
Margaret Douglas, CEO of Save the Children Australia, was last night named the winner of the 2006 Equity Trustees Not for Profit CEO of the Year. [Adobe PDF, 43 Kb]
12 September 2006 Rewrite the Future: Armed conflict creating humanitarian crisis for 43 million children
New research from Save the Children reveals the devastating consequences of armed conflict on education in thirty countries . Schools are destroyed or commandeered by armed forces, teachers are killed or flee to escape the violence , children can be recruited and forced to fight, and are more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation [Adobe PDF, 100 Kb]
24 July 2006 Leading International Agency to visit Shepparton
Members of the corporate Business Alliance arm of Save the Children Australia, together with business people from the local community, will meet to discuss exciting partnership opportunities within the Greater Shepparton area on Monday 31 July. [Adobe PDF, 78 Kb]
21 July 2006 Helping Children Caught in Escalating Middle East Crisis
Save the Children is moving quickly to respond to the immediate and urgent needs of children and families in the Middle East who have been displaced and affected by the recent escalating violence in the region. [Adobe PDF, 74 Kb]