A 20-day-old baby and a 17-year-old pregnant girl are among COVID-19’s latest victims in Northern Syria as the number of people catching the virus continues to rise sharply, Save the Children said today. The organisation called for the international community –...
Children born over the past year will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents under original Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges. This is according to new research released by Save the Children in...
Children in South Sudan said hunger was forcing more young people to drop out of school, putting girls at risk of early marriage and sexual exploitation, and forcing some boys into crime, according to Save the Children research being released on Thursday at the United...
In response to the announcement today that secondary schools in Afghanistan will be reopening, but only for boys, Save the Children said it was critical that all children in Afghanistan have access to education. Olivier Franchi, Regional Programme Operations Director...
The education of hundreds of millions of children in a quarter of the world’s countries is at extreme or high risk of collapsing, Save the Children said today. New analysis from the organisation finds that factors such as climate change, a lack of COVID-19 vaccines,...
Four years after almost one million Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar into Bangladesh, Save the Children warns that an onslaught of fires, floods, cyclones and the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year has left refugee children struggling to cope with many self-harming....
