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31 Oct 2024

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World more dangerous than ever for children with crimes in conflict at highest level in 2023

  • Save the Children report reveals the number of grave violations committed against children in conflict reached highest level ever in 2023, with over 31,000 documented cases

  • An average of 31 children a day killed or maimed

  • Biggest increases in crimes against children recorded in the occupied Palestinian territory and Sudan 

  • 473 million children – or 19% of the world’s child population – lived under the weight of war in 2023

  • The cost of conflict skyrocketed to US $19.1 trillion last year, while investments in peace and conflict prevention remained low –with a $4 trillion gap needed to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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30 Oct 2024

Over 2.8 million children under five forced from their home across Sudan

New figures reveal over half of the 11 million displaced – or 5.8 million - are children under 18, and over one quarter – or 2.8 million - are children aged under five. 

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29 Oct 2024

LEBANON: At least two children killed every day in five weeks of war

The humanitarian situation in Lebanon continues to rapidly deteriorate; the latest Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed at least 60 people, including two children. Over 100 children – an average of 2 children a day – have been killed since the war started on 23 September, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health.

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28 Oct 2024

PHILIPPINES: Education disrupted for more than 90% of school children in wake of Storm Trami

The storm, which prompted widespread evacuations and affected 805,000 families, has disrupted learning for more than 19 million students.

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YEMEN: TWO MONTHS ON, HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACCESS AND RELEASE OF DETAINED COLLEAGUES

Below is a joint statement from Save the Children, Oxfam and CARE International on our colleagues detained in Yemen for two months now. 

Raouf*(13), a child once displaced by extreme weather, Kandahar, Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN: Extreme weather forces more people from their homes in first six months of 2024 than all 2023

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

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Sudan crisis: Severe acute malnutrition skyrocketing in Save the Children clinics as country now in worst phase of food insecurity

Save the Children press release on hunger and severe acute malnutrition in Sudan

Athaab*s, 26, daughter *Qadar climbs a ladder in a destroyed building, Sinjar, northern Iraq.

ABOUT 1,300 YAZIDI CHILDREN STILL MISSING 10 YEARS AFTER GENOCIDE

Press release to mark 10 years since the Yazidi Genocide in Iraq.

Viyan* 15, sits for a portrait wearing traditional Yazidi dress inside her tent, Kabaratu ID camp, northern Iraq.

Child Account: “MY SOUL HURTS” - YAZIDI CHILD 10 YEARS AFTER GENOCIDE

A Child Account from a 15-year-old Yazidi Girl, Viyan* who lives in an IDP camp, northern Iraq

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Save the Children and Fedi Announce First-of-its-Kind Collaboration Aimed at Revolutionising Cash Assistance Through Bitcoin

Global humanitarian organisation Save the Children and Fedi, Inc., announced a groundbreaking collaboration

Displaced families on the move in Al Mawasi

GAZA: Nearly 300 days into the war, attacks on 'humanitarian zones', never-ending relocation orders and aid worker fatalities cripple aid delivery

Intensified Israeli airstrikes in areas of Gaza have drastically impeded the ability to  deliver life-saving supplies

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Ethiopia: More than 1,320 children remain at risk following week of deadly landslides

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