In 2024, children around the world were faced with long-lasting conflicts, deadly disease outbreaks and extreme weather events, including heatwaves, wildfires, drought, typhoons and flooding. Thanks to the Children’s Emergency Fund, we were able to start helping...
In 2025, deepening inequality, more violent and protracted conflict, and increasingly severe climate hazards will continue to threaten children’s lives, rights, and futures. More people are projected to be uprooted from their homes in 2025, with over 120 million...
Children in Gaza are paying the highest price for a war they play no part in. In the past year, more than 14,100 children have been killed in Gaza, as well as more than 140 children in the West Bank and 37 children in Israel. This war comes on top of 56 years of...
More than a century ago, the founder of Save the Children spoke these words: “All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are wanted against the child.”SWOC_report_2023_WEB
The dramatic escalation of war in Ukraine in February 2022 has affected every person in the country. In the year since February 2022, at least 18,657 civilian casualties have been verified by the UN: 7,110 killed and 11,547 injured. 1 The true figures are likely...
In 2023, 339 million people will require humanitarian assistance, a nearly 24% increase in need compared to 2022. Critical needs for children will persist and accelerate, in an increasingly challenging operational environment.
