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World Leaders Urged To Halt Escalating Hunger Crisis As 17% More People Expected To Need Life-saving Aid In 2022
Friday, 3 December 2021, 10:30 am | Save The Children
A group of 120 non-governmental organisations has joined forces in an open letter calling on world leaders to do more to halt a devastating global hunger crisis as new analysis shows the number of people likely to be in need of humanitarian aid ... More >>
Save The Children Statement Re: Chief Ombudsman's Findings On MIQ
Friday, 26 November 2021, 9:29 am | Save The Children
Save the Children is concerned by the Chief Ombudsman’s findings that some children and young people may not have had their rights met during their forced stay in MIQ. "We expect Minister Hipkins to take these findings seriously and immediately ... More >>
Afghanistan: Two Babies Born Every Minute As Health System Nears Collapse In First 100 Days Of Taliban Rule
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 6:09 am | Save The Children
Afghan women have been left with no other option than to give birth at home with no medicine or pain relief as the country's health system nears collapse in first 100 days of Taliban rule. Two babies have been born every minute since the Taliban ... More >>
"We All Have Them!": Kiwi Kids Send Vital Message About Children’s Rights This World Children’s Day
Saturday, 20 November 2021, 6:37 am | Save The Children
A new short film , from children to children, sends a crucial reminder to Kiwi kids on World Children’s Day: "we all have rights". Hosted by ‘Super Millie’, the Kiwi kid super hero and star of Save the Children New Zealand's campaign to empower ... More >>
Don’t COP-out: Save The Children Calls For Greater Commitments At Climate Summit For Future Generations
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 9:53 am | Save The Children
Save the Children has described a draft agreement published at the COP26 climate summit on Wednesday as "incredibly disappointing" and urged governments to make great commitments and not letdown millions of children affected by the climate ... More >>
Increases To Family Tax Credits & Best Start Payments Will Have 'Little Effect For Struggling Families'
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 5:42 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children welcomed yesterday's slight lift in the Family Tax Credit and Best Start Payments that would give around 346,000 families an average $20 extra a week, but said the increase was not enough to make a tangible difference to the ... More >>
Climate Crises Force Rising Numbers Of Children From Their Homes With No Way Back
Friday, 29 October 2021, 1:15 pm | Save The Children
Surging temperatures, rising water levels and land degradation drove an estimated record 10 million children from their homes last year with the increase in climate migration coming with a new risk - they may never return. A new report from Save ... More >>
Former NZ PMs Amongst Global Leaders Making Urgent COVID Vaccine Appeal To G20 Chair Mario Draghi
Friday, 29 October 2021, 11:30 am | Save The Children
More than 160 global leaders, including former New Zealand Prime Ministers Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley, have written a joint letter to Italian premier, Mario Draghi, urging him to use his chair of the G20 summit to stop rich nations hoarding COVID ... More >>
"No Vaccine For Hunger" This World Food Day: Save The Children Launches Appeal To Tackle Global Hunger Crisis
Friday, 15 October 2021, 8:45 am | Save The Children
Save the Children today launched its end of year appeal ahead of tomorrow’s World Food Day aimed at raising much-needed funds to help prevent thousands of children dying of hunger. With an estimated 5.7 million children under five on the brink of ... More >>
Save The Children And Peppa Pig Launch Mindfulness Month Ahead Of World Mental Health Day
Friday, 8 October 2021, 12:00 pm | Save The Children
A new campaign from Save the Children and Peppa Pig launched this week is aimed at encouraging mindfulness in young children. Timed to coincide with World Mental Health Day on Sunday 10 October, the month-long campaign includes a virtual kid’s ... More >>
MYANMAR: More Than 76,000 Children Displaced By Violence Since Coup, With Pregnant Women Forced To Give Birth In Forest
Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 11:24 am | Save The Children
More than 76,000 children in Myanmar have been forced to flee their homes since the coup on 1 February as armed conflict has erupted in several parts of the country, Save the Children said today. Most of the displaced children are living outside in ... More >>
Save The Children Launch Child Rights Education Programme To Empower Kiwi Kids
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 9:39 am | Save The Children
Save the Children is today launching a new education programme for schools that aims to teach Kiwi kids about their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The free online programme has been developed by educators at Save the ... More >>
Urgent Inquiry Needed Into "Demeaning And Inhumane" Culture At MSD
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 6:09 am | Save The Children
A group of the country’s leading frontline beneficiary and child rights organisations are calling for a select committee inquiry into what they dub the "demeaning and inhumane" processes and culture at the Ministry of Social Development’s ... More >>
‘Superhero’ campaign aims to empower Kiwi kids in lockdown
Friday, 3 September 2021, 9:32 am | Save The Children
Save the Children’s ‘superhero’ campaign aims to empower Kiwi kids in lockdown A new super heroes campaign aimed at empowering children through New Zealand’s latest COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown launches today from child rights organisation ... More >>
One Year After Beirut Blast, Economic Crisis Pushes Families Further Into Hunger, Says Save The Children
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 10:06 am | Save The Children
Hundreds of thousands of children in Lebanon are going to bed hungry, Save the Children warned today, with parents unable to pay for basics such as food, electricity and medicine. The gap in finances needed to buy basic goods has skyrocketed 550 percent ... More >>
NORTH WEST SYRIA: Save The Children Condemns Attacks Killing At Least 13 Children In Three Days In Ceasefire Zone
Monday, 19 July 2021, 11:10 am | Save The Children
Save the Children said at least 13 children have been killed in a wave of violence in North West Syria, over the last three days. Since Thursday, ongoing artillery attacks and airstrikes have been targeting civilian areas in the ceasefire zone in ... More >>
$1million Bequest From Kiwi Siblings Enables Maternal Health Programme In Nepal
Sunday, 11 July 2021, 4:38 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand will launch a new programme aimed at providing maternal and newborn services to thousands of families in north-west Nepal thanks to a generous $1million gift in the will of two Auckland siblings. The new health programme is ... More >>
Save The Children Says Violence Against Children In Aotearoa Must Stop
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 5:00 pm | Save The Children
Save the Children New Zealand is outraged by the recent examples of violence against children in Aotearoa - including the video of an Oranga Tamariki staffer assaulting a vulnerable child in care. "In just five short days, there have been three ... More >>
Kiwis Give $130k To Feed Fijian Families In Need
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 12:26 pm | Save The Children
Hundreds of Fijian children going hungry after COVID-19 decimated their families’ incomes will receive life-saving grocery packs thanks to the generosity of Kiwis giving to Save the Children New Zealand’s emergency appeal. Launched three weeks ... More >>
Save The Children: ‘Saudi Led Coalition Gets A Free Pass To Destroy Children’s Lives In Yemen Yet Again’
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 9:45 am | Save The Children
Despite killing and maiming at least 194 children in Yemen in 2020 according to UN verified data, the Saudi and Emirati led coalition gets a green light to continue destroying children’s lives in Yemen, Save the Children warned today. In a disheartening ... More >>
