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15 Dec 2025
global
Aid After 2025: Why the Private Sector must become core to humanitarian response
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.
10 Dec 2025
global
Why children need safer, age-appropriate online spaces and not blanket bans
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.
22 Oct 2025
What the Ceasefire means for Children in Gaza – and what comes next
The announcement of a pause in hostilities offers a moment of hope for children and families in Gaza. But while it provides a brief respite, it is not enough.
19 Mar 2025
global
Foreign Aid Cuts: The real impact on children and our programmes
Foreign aid funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat globally. Over 40 countries we operate in have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Learn more about the real impact of foreign cuts on children and our programmes in this blog.
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"After the Quakes": Türkiye Grapples with Rising Distress, Bullying, and Self-harm 100 Days Later
For 100 days, children and caregivers in Türkiye’s southern province of Hatay have been trying to come to terms with what happened.
Escaping Artillery Fire: A Family's Harrowing Experience Trapped in Sudan
Aid Worker Account from Omer Sharfy in Sudan to mark one month since the fighting erupted.
Innovation vs Implementation: Finding the Sweet Spot for Progress
Is innovation the key to solving the world's most pressing challenges, or are we too focused on finding new solutions?
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Changing society’s mind-set: Corporal punishment is never ok
There is ample evidence that physical and humiliating punishment can be harmful to children’s development.
Every Breath Counts: Fighting Pneumonia in Nigeria
Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of child death in the world. On average, almost 2,000 children die every day from pneumonia.
Earth Day: Women are at the forefront of Climate Adaptation in Niger
Niger is one of the top 10 countries globally affected by climate change. Women are at the forefront of climate adaptation in Niger.
Shifting the Power: Locally-led solutions are better for children
Our world faces many development and humanitarian challenges like the conflict in DRC that have forced Save the Children to think and work differently
Child Protection in the Digital World: Why is it needed?
Every half a second a child goes onto the internet for the first time. The opportunities and benefits are clear, but so are the real dangers.
