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Save the Children and its advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), are deeply concerned about the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to withhold disbursement of critical federal ...
About 80,000 Afghan children crossed into Afghanistan from Iran in June, as total arrivals more than doubled compared to May, pushing an already overstretched system to the brink, Save the Children ...
Nearly 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in Sudan while seeking health care or visiting loved ones in hospital, with attacks on hospitals nearly tripling after two years of conflict and ...
Celebrating International Day of Play: The Importance of Play for All Children Written by James Cox, Head of Advocacy and Policy - Education, Save the Children International In this piece, James Cox, ...
In a City Under Fire, One Woman Stays to Give Children Hope For Lesia*, a resident of Sumy in northwest Ukraine, life under war has become a relentless exercise in navigating danger, uncertainty, and ...
The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019, Save the Children said.
New analysis also reveals more than 330 million children at risk of recruitment to armed groups and government forces worldwide—three times more than in 1990. Save the Children's sixth report ...
Save the Children International is pleased to announce that Angela Ahrendts DBE has been appointed as the new chair of its Board of Trustees.
A team of doctors with frontline experience have joined forces to train Ukrainian medics on how to treat children who have been injured by explosive weapons as the war reaches the one-year mark with ...
A staggering 72 million children—17 percent of the 426 million children living in conflict areas, globally, or one in six—are living near armed groups that perpetrate sexual violence against them, a ...
New report from Save the Children warns of ‘unprecedented global education emergency' FAIRFIELD, Conn. (July 12, 2020)—Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic ...
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Nov. 19, 2020) — A total of 93,236 children [i] have been killed or maimed in conflicts in the last ten years, Save the Children revealed today. That means 25 children, the ...