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Climate change: A third of 5-year-olds will be spared unprecedented lifetime exposure to dangerous heat if world meets 1.5°C temperature goal

Almost a third of today’s five-year-olds – about 38 million children – will be spared a lifetime’s “unprecedented” exposure to extreme heat if the world meets the 1.5°C warming target by 2100, Save the Children said. 

Wilberth walking through his home's garden.

Migrant Children Fleeing Violence Face New Dangers and Uncertainty at Mexico’s Northern Border, New Report Finds

The research, based on 155 interviews with migrant children and their caregivers across three of Mexico’s major border cities—Ciudad Juárez, Reynosa, and Tijuana—reveals that after fleeing violence, many children found themselves in overcrowded shelters, out of school and in unsafe neighbourhoods alone, where they faced further dangers and continued to be denied their rights.

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Increase in bullying in Philippines schools over past year fuels campaign to end corporal punishment

“Many children cannot retaliate when hurt or shamed by a parent or caregiver, so they express their anger, resentment and pain elsewhere, sometimes through aggression towards their toys, pets, younger siblings, or classmates who are smaller or appear weaker than them." - Wilma Banaga, Save the Children Philippines Child Protection Advisor. 

Tin Tin*, 32, with her daughter in the makeshift tent in the village where she lives

MYANMAR: More than 40,000 people, including children, living in shelters one month after earthquake

Almost daily seismic activity has raised concerns about being able repair or rebuild structures ahead of Myanmar’s rainy season which typically begins in May. 

Madleen, 11, and Agnes, 7, holding mangoes outside their home on an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu.

VANUATU: Families find climate-smart ways to grow crops 18 months on from cyclone devastation

Families in Vanuatu are adopting climate-smart agricultural techniques such as growing climate resistant crops to prepare for future climate-driven disasters in the wake of devastating Tropical Cyclone Lola 18 months ago.

Ereng's mother feeds her fortified peanut paste

AID CUTS THREATEN THE LIVES OF 110,000 CHILDREN WITH SEVERE MALNUTRITION RELIANT ON EMERGENCY TREATMENT FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN

In 2025, Save the Children aims to treat 260,000 children for severe acute malnutrition at outpatient sites in 10 countries that are now experiencing therapeutic food shortages.

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Save the Children deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis

Save the Children is deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis, who tirelessly advocated for children and young people throughout his pontificate. 

Returnees' camp in east Afghanistan

Nearly 50,000 Afghan children pushed out of Pakistan in first two weeks of April

The children form part of a surge of returnees, with 84,000 people crossing into Afghanistan in recent weeks, adding to a total of about 940,000 people – including about 545,000 children – who have now returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan since September 2023.

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