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Jeffrey DeMarco, Senior Technical Advisor, Protecting Children from Digital Harm, at Save the Children UK, shares five tips to help children and families to have an enjoyable and safe experience online.

As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.

As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.

Save the Children will stop seeking country-level emergency funding managed by UNOCHA from 2026 to open space for local and national actors.

Sudan is one of the world’s largest humanitarian emergencies and one of the gravest crises for children’s rights. Every day the fighting continues, another generation of children remains shut out of school. 

Yet amidst all this, there are stories of children who refuse to let go of hope. 

Vishna Shah, Director for Child Rights Advocacy and Campaign at Save the Children International, met some of these children during her recent visit to Sudan. 

This is a message from members of the Children’s Councils to world leaders to highlight one of the impacts of the conflict in Yemen on schools and education, and to stress the importance of implementing the Safe Schools Declaration, in the hope that this will lead to further action and support to protect children’s right to education.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time. Despite decades of activism, policy reform, and global campaigns like the 16 Days of Activism, progress remains painfully slow. Here we explore the scale of the crisis, the barriers to ending GBV, and the proven strategies that can accelerate change. It is a call to action: we cannot wait 300 years to achieve gender equality and end violence against women and girls.  

Dr. Samiya*, 38, is a general practitioner who has been working in the Yemen humanitarian response since 2013,  serving as a doctor in mobile clinics. She joined Save the Children in October 2023, becoming a case management medical doctor in February 2024 supporting injured children with appropriate medical care and support.