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JOINT STATEMENT: Four Leading Child Rights Organizations Launch Joining Forces Somalia Chapter to Unite Efforts for Children's Protection
Four major child-focused agencies launched the Joining Forces Somalia Chapter on 11 February 2026, uniting efforts to strengthen child protection laws, end violence against children, and amplify children's voices in policy decisions. Save the Children Somalia chairs the alliance, which will advocate for passage of key child rights legislation and conduct national research on the situation of Somalia's children.
Human Rights Day
In collaboration with National Human Rights Commission (NCHR), we reaffirm children's rights to dignity, protection, and opportunity in Mozambique. Save the Children and NCHR co-hosted the 4th Regional Conference of National Human Rights Institutions in Southern Africa, addressing priorities like ending early and forced unions, strengthening child protection systems, and safeguarding children in humanitarian and climate crises, while highlighting challenges in weak law implementation and limited child participation.
STATEMENT: Save the Children Welcomes the Approval of Somalia’s Independent Human Rights Commission
Reactive Statement on Approval of Somalia’s National Independent Human Rights Commission
Save the Children Zimbabwe Impact Bulletin: January-July 2025
Between January and July 2025, Save the Children Zimbabwe and its partners supported communities to withstand drought, protect livelihoods, and safeguard children’s rights. Farmers in Matobo were equipped with drought-tolerant seeds, animal feed, and improved water systems, helping families recover and sustain their livelihoods. In Bulilima, mothers and children received nutrition support alongside strengthened community health groups, ensuring healthy growth and maternal wellbeing. Across the country, children are gaining new opportunities to read and learn through the distribution of literacy materials, teacher support, and digital learning tools. Communities also became better prepared to prevent cholera outbreaks through mobile awareness campaigns, while child protection structures were strengthened to fight child labour and trafficking. Children themselves played an active role in shaping national conversations on planning and budgeting. These efforts demonstrate Save the Children’s commitment to resilient communities, and a future where every child survives, learns, and is protected. Read our Impact Bulletin here: Save the Children Zimbabwe Impact Bulletin (January-July 2025) - Save the Children’s Resource Centre
“Include Us in Planning and Budgeting for Our Rights” — Gamu (16)- Child Advocate
To commemorate Day of the African Child, Gamu, a 16-year-old advocate, joined her peers in a creative advocacy event and digital campaign centred on this year’s theme: Planning and Budgeting for Children’s Rights: Progress since 2010. The campaign supported by Save the Children was about amplifying their voices and placing them at the centre of decision-making.
Don’t switch off – the world’s children have never needed you more
Today, every child has rights, but these are being eroded by the consistent threats of conflict, climate change and inequality. It could be so easy to feel overwhelmed by this heartbreaking reality, but switching off is not the answer.
It is time for Governments to Redefine Child Protection and Celebrate their Diverse Workforce
Social workers play a crucial role in child protection, often overlooked by the public. This blog emphasizes the positive impact of social workers who support families and advocate for children's welfare globally and calls for investment in preventative and responsive child protection services to ensure every child thrives ahead of the Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children.
One third of children worldwide exposed to extreme heatwaves as temperatures hit record highs, new report reveals
One-third of the total global child population—or 766 million children—were exposed to extreme heatwaves in the year between July 2023 and June 2024
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
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
PHILIPPINES: School suspended after powerful storm wreaks havoc with warnings over disease
Classes across the Philippines were suspended following a powerful typhoon that swept across the country.
Child rights groups vow to further drive campaign on female genital mutilation after the Gambia upholds a ban
"Harmful practices like FGM must never be allowed"
Children from Colombia’s Indigenous Wayuu Community Compose New Song to Demand Climate Action
Children from Colombia’s Indigenous Wayuu community have composed a powerful song to draw attention to the drought and water scarcity.
SAVE THE CHILDREN’S GLOBAL MEDIA AWARDS 2024 OPENS FOR ENTRIES
Save the Children International launches its inaugural Global Media Awards to celebrate excellence in journalism for child rights.
‘There is a wall between us’: As new school year begins in Thailand, funding shortages hinder education for refugee children on Myanmar border
As Thai children head back to school following a long summer break, a lack of funding has hindered many displaced children from Myanmar.
Children to tell Inter-American Court of Human Rights how climate change is affecting them in historic hearing
Save the Children press release on children speaking about how climate change is affecting their rights at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
More than half of Pakistan’s school age children will be out of school due to extreme heat
More than half of Pakistan’s school age children – about 26 million - will be locked out of classrooms for a week due to an ongoing heat wave.
Children in Pacific Island countries face increasing levels of violence
Children in Pacific Island countries face increasing levels of violence, a Save the Children study has found.
Vietnam’s El Niño-induced drought leaves about 73,900 households in Mekong River Delta with limited access to fresh water
About 73,900 households in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta have limited access to fresh water following a weeks-long heatwave. Save the Children.
Duarte Agostinho ECHR case: disappointing outcome for the six young applicants’ access to justice
Duarte Agostinho ECHR case: disappointing outcome for the six young applicants’ access to justice but children should not lose hope following Court’s
Mongolia's extreme winter: 5.2 million livestock dead as children miss out on school
Mongolia’s extreme winter conditions, or Dzud, shows no sign of abating and Mongolia has lost 5.2 million livestock.
Spike in arrivals of unaccompanied Rohingya children in Indonesia highlights increasing desperation – Save the Children
About 250 unaccompanied Rohingya children arrived in Indonesia in the last three months of 2023.
INDONESIA: Floods force more than 15,000 children from their homes in Sumatra as Indonesia battles second climate crisis in a month
Flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have affected about 15,500 children and 40,000 families.
“We are exhausted searching for water” - Indigenous children battle hunger, disease and water shortages, as Colombia feels the impact of El Nino
The devastating impact of the climate crisis on children in Colombia’s largest indigenous group, the Wayuu, is illustrated in this powerful series of
International Women’s Day: Save the Children, the LEGO Group and the LEGO Foundation launch new initiative to empower Girls to become Unstoppable Women
A new ‘Girls Unstoppable’ programme has its sights on freeing up girls from chores and care work and getting them into girls clubs.
Nepal: Girl cricketers who successfully campaigned to end child marriage play in first provincial tournament to mark International Women’s Day
Girl cricketers who joined forces on and off the pitch to campaign against child marriage take part in their first provincial ‘all-girls' tournament
In horror year for Dengue, Laos capital sees major drop in cases
A year that saw a rise to at least 5 million cases and 5,500 deaths from dengue fever globally across most continents, Vientiane – the capital of La
INDONESIA: At least 11,500 people displaced by floods in Central Java
Flooding in Demak and Grobogan regencies of Central Java has displaced about 11,500 people, including at least 1,100 children.
Bangkok's children exposed to toxic air seven out of ten days in 2023 – Save the Children
Children in Bangkok breathed unhealthy air for 70% of the year in 2023, Save the Children said, as the Thai capital reels from its latest air crisis.
The beautiful game: Football scheme offers mental and physical well-being support for vulnerable children in Hong Kong
Daniel, 11, hardly saw his friends and had limited social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. Now, he's part of 'Play to Thrive'.
Rohingya children stuck in Indonesian camps call for freedom to move
Rohingya refugee children who have been forced to flee Bangladesh and Myanmar are now asking authorities in Indonesia for more freedom to leave.
Huggable puppy backpack comforts children on the frontline of the climate crisis in Peru as dengue cases surge
Children in Peru at the sharp end of the climate crisis have been given a huggable backpack
Children’s mental health suffers following deadly Japan quake, as many schools stay shut
Children’s mental health suffers following deadly Japan quake, as many schools stay shut
Through the Lens of Resilience: Indigenous children in Colombia photograph the climate crisis
Press release on participatory photo project by Save the Children in Colombia
“Listen to us”: What children want from COP28
“Listen to us”: What children want from COP28 children's voices
Cambodia: Children build innovative tool to trap rubbish in floating villages
Save the Children press release on children and biobars in Cambodia
Save the Children staff member in Gaza who is on the move with three children all aged under 10.
Quote from a long-standing Save the Children staff member in Gaza who is on the move with three children all aged under 10.
Urgent plea to avert unprecedented humanitarian crisis amid looming Israeli land incursion into Gaza
Humanitarian agencies operating in Gaza are reporting an unfolding humanitarian crisis on an unprecedented scale. There are not adequate facilities to
The Climate Crisis: A Poem
Anuska, a climate child activist from Nepal writes a poem about the Climate Crisis after attending the Climate March at UNGA.
Groundbreaking climate case involving children to be heard by European Court tomorrow
Save the Children press release on the biggest climate case taken to the European Court of Human Rights
Lost friends, pets, and futures: Ukrainian refugee children’s key worries, according to new report
Ukrainian refugee children miss their family, friends, and pets, and worry about not knowing the local language
Arsenal star and England football captain Leah Williamson to tell the UN “There’s much more to do to level the playing field for girls” following visit to refugee camp
Arsenal’s Leah Williamson will make an impassioned plea to challenge gender stereotypes and level the playing field for girls around the world.
Giant white bear and teen activist travel from Nepal to New York to campaign for action on global goals
Save the Children child campaigner from Nepal and giant white bear travel from Nepal to New York
STATEMENT: DEADLY CLASHES IN PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP IN LEBANON CLOSE SCHOOLS, PUT CHILDREN AT RISK
Clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in the south of Lebanon have closed schools and are putting children at direct risk
Greece: Less than one third of unaccompanied children get asylum approved, leaving the rest at risk
Most unaccompanied children seeking safety in Greece have their asylum claims rejected, leaving them without legal papers and vulnerable to abuse
Five ways in which heatwaves threaten child rights, from education to daily meals
Save the Children press release five ways heatwaves impact children's rights around the world
Ukraine: "There is no school - what are we graduating from?" School leavers abstain from graduation festivities after turbulent final year
Cohort of Ukrainian school leavers opted to abstain from graduation this year with their final studies wrecked by 17 months of war
First girl to brief UN Security Council in person calls for children to have a voice in peace processes
A girl will address the UN Security Council (UNSC) in New York in person today for the first time in its nearly 70-year history, using her experience
Syrian teens present snapshots of their shattered lives at international conference
Children have taken photos of rubble and their homes in Syria