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SOUTH SUDAN: New climate resilience schools to support more than 200,000 children hit by climate disasters
Save the Children, with funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), has launched a US$18.6 million project to strengthen climate resilience through education across South Sudan.
South Sudan: Over half of children set to go hungry as conflict and floods collide in one of the world’s worst hunger crises
The latest IPC figures show that next April, between planting and harvesting, about 3.5 million children–53%–will be facing acute hunger, up from 42% currently.
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DRC: NUMBER OF CHILDREN FACING SEVERE HUNGER SET TO SURGE BY 20% AS CONFLICT DRIVES THOUSANDS FROM THEIR HOMES
The number of children facing severe hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is expected to surge by at least 20% by the start of 2026.
Save the Children and Qatar Charity announce new partnership to help children in emergencies
Save the Children and Qatar Charity today announced a new partnership to bring more urgent relief to children and families impacted by humanitarian emergencies in the Middle East and around the world.
World leaders must expand social investment to reduce poverty after committing to milestone declaration 30 years ago
It is three decades since first World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen and, while there has progress in reducing poverty and expanding access to essential services, inequalities remain high and children are disproportionately affected, said Save the Children.
COP30: About 136,000 children a day still affected by climate disasters despite pledges over 30 years
Despite three decades of pledges and some progress, the 30th UN climate summit takes place against a backdrop of catastrophic climate disasters that are forcing millions of children from their homes, disrupting their education, and causing hunger and threats to their health and safety.
Crimes against children in conflict surged 30% in 2024 to worst ever level
- Stop the War on Children: Security for Whom? shows 2024 saw record-highs both in exposure to conflict and grave violations committed against children.
- It warns that violence against children is rising far faster than the spread of conflict, and that while global security spending is soaring, children have never been less safe
AFGHANISTAN: Children flee homes after second major earthquake in two months
The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of Monday, with the epicentre in Samangan province, an hour from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Severe shaking was also felt in the capital, Kabul, with tremors reported as far away as Pakistan. The tremors caused panic and terror for children and their families, forcing them to run from their homes in provinces across northern Afghanistan where temperatures are dropping as winter sets in.