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One In 8 Children Significantly Impacted By The 10 Biggest Extreme Weather Events This Year
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 4:43 pm | Save The Children
As world leaders prepare to meet at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan next week, new analysis by the child rights organisation showed that from 1 January until 29 October, about 300 million children across Asia, Africa and Brazil were affected by the worst ... More >>
World More Dangerous Than Ever For Children With Crimes In Conflict At Highest Ever In 2023
Friday, 1 November 2024, 11:41 am | Save The Children
The report found 31,721 documented cases of grave violations against children [2] in conflict took place in 2023, which equated to an average of 86 crimes against children per day, eclipsing the previous record set in 2022. More >>
LEBANON: At Least 2 Children Killed Every Day In Five Weeks Of War
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 9:25 am | Save The Children
More than one million people - about one fifth of the population - have been forcibly displaced from their homes and about 2,700 people, including over 150 children, killed and more than 12,500 injured since October last year according to the Ministry of ... More >>
Rangatahi Present Climate Action Statement To Politicians Ahead Of COP29
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 1:43 pm | Save The Children
The Youth Climate Statement, created at NZ’s first COP simulation event for youth held last month in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, will be presented to climate spokespeople this evening online at 7pm before being sent to Climate Change Minister Simon Watts ... More >>
Save The Children Welcomes Announcement Of Remodelled Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches Programme
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 7:00 am | Save The Children
The new model will continue to provide free healthy school lunches to 242,000 primary and secondary students and an additional 10,000 preschoolers. More >>
Save The Children Welcomes Announcement Of Remodelled Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches Programme
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 6:55 am | Save The Children
The new model will continue to provide free healthy school lunches to 242,000 primary and secondary students and an additional 10,000 preschoolers. More >>
LEBANON: Over 400,000 Forcibly Displaced Children At Growing Risk Of Scabies, Cholera And Waterborne Diseases
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 9:22 am | Save The Children
The World Health Organisation expressed concerns that many of those who had fled the violence in the south had no protection from cholera, which thrives in poor water and sanitary conditions. More >>
Save The Children Statement: ‘Rohingya Refugees Must Be Given Humanitarian Assistance And Protection’
Monday, 21 October 2024, 9:34 am | Save The Children
The wooden fishing boat is carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees according to local authorities and fishermen and is anchored around 5 kilometers off the coast of South Aceh[1]. This is the first boat carrying Rohingya refugees to arrive in ... More >>
West And Central Africa: About 10 Million Children Forced Out Of Schools By Worst Flooding In Recent Years
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 9:28 am | Save The Children
The unprecedented heavy rains across Nigeria, Mali, Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have created a worsening education crisis with the damage or destruction of schools, the occupation of school buildings by displaced families, and the displacement ... More >>
GAZA: Nowhere Safe In Gaza As Attacks In North & Hospital Ablaze In South Put Lives Of Children And Families At Risk
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 1:40 pm | Save The Children
Civilians in the north were directed to the "humanitarian zone" under orders issued by Israeli forces on 7, 9 and 12 October. Al-Aqsa Hospital is just metres away from where children are receiving a second round of polio vaccines. More >>
A Girl Marries Every 30 Seconds In Countries Ranked Fragile And Child Marriage Hotspots - New Report
Friday, 11 October 2024, 12:40 pm | Save The Children
Nour-, 15, in the tent where she lives with her family in Maban, South Sudan. (Photo/Supplied) A girl is married every 30 seconds in countries ranked as fragile states and with high child marriage rates, with about 32 million adolescent girls living in these ... More >>
At Least 3100 Children Aged Under Five Killed With Others At Risk As Famine Looms
Friday, 11 October 2024, 9:12 am | Save The Children
About 30% of the 11,300 identified children killed in Gaza between last October and 31 August were younger than five, according to a newly published breakdown of the ages of about 34,000 people whose deaths have been verified by Gaza’s Ministry ... More >>
Education Disrupted For Sixth Year For 1.5 Million Children In Lebanon, With Half Of Public Schools Used As Shelters
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 5:17 pm | Save The Children
Lebanon’s Ministry of Education said that Israeli airstrikes have forced about 40% of Lebanon's 1.5 million pupils from their homes and postponed the start of the school year for public schools from 14 October to 4 November. More >>
GAZA STAFF ACCOUNTS - Heartbreak And Resilience: Stories Of Gaza's Children Through The Eyes Of Save The Children Staff
Friday, 4 October 2024, 9:58 am | Save The Children
Save the Children staff working in Gaza said children were struggling to cope in so many ways with the loss of homes, loved ones and security, with their childhoods shattered by war. More >>
Shelters Struggle To Accommodate Families Of One Million Displaced As Israeli Military Issues New Relocation Orders
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 2:38 pm | Save The Children
Numbers are expected to swell following new relocation orders issued by Israeli forces on Tuesday, demanding residents in more than two dozen villages in the south of Lebanon to relocate north of the Awali River, approximately 50 km into the country. More >>
Ground Incursion Of Israeli Forces In South Lebanon Will Have Deadly Consequences For Children, Warns Save The Children
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 12:54 pm | Save The Children
Attacks across the country have killed at least 95 people and injured 172 in the past 24 hours according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. More >>
Nepal: At Least 14 Children Killed And Schools Closed After Floods And Landslides Triggered By Record Breaking Rain
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 3:06 pm | Save The Children
At least 54 schools have been damaged, impacting 11,000 children. All schools in areas affected by the floods are closed for three days with exams postponed nationwide, disrupting education for millions of children. More >>
About 60,000 Children Crossed Into Syria From Lebanon In Less Than A Week
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 2:32 pm | Save The Children
Around 100,000 people - an estimated 60% Syrian, 40% Lebanese - have crossed into Syria from Lebanon since the hostilities intensified on 24 September, according to UN figures [1]. More >>
About 140,000 Children Displaced By Israeli Airstrikes In Lebanon, Many Arriving In Shelters Severely Distressed
Friday, 27 September 2024, 9:12 am | Save The Children
Latest figures from Lebanon’s Ministry of Health report nearly 600 people have been killed in Lebanon this week, including 50 children, while nearly 1,800 have been injured. More >>
Rangatahi To Join International Climate Meeting Simulation
Friday, 27 September 2024, 8:59 am | Save The Children
Around 30 rangatahi aged between 12 and 18 will join a simulation of COP29, the UN’s international climate meeting. The event is hosted by Save the Children NZ, alongside partners the Education Partnership and Innovation Trust (EPIT), Youth Climate Collective, ... More >>
