Baby Sara is suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and is receiving treatment at a Save the Children mobile health facility in Sar-e-pul. Photo: Michal Przedlacki / Save the Children. The number of children in Afghanistan not getting enough to eat has...
Two-third of respondents support a ban on physical punishment of children, nearly 80% support enacting a Mandatory Reporting Mechanism The recent rise in child abuse cases in Hong Kong has prompted society to rethink using corporal and humiliating punishment as a...
Seven children were among the 43 people killed by the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano on Saturday, Save the Children said today. Four of the seven children were primary-school age, and the rest were at junior high schools. Save the Children said the...
Children sleeping outside without proper winter clothing face freezing conditions that could lead to illness or death. Abdel*, 45, lives in Faryab province, Afghanistan, with his wife and four children. Their home lacks doors and the windows are broken, but they are...
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 Tagreed*, 11, was injured and lost one of her legs when she was hit by a missile in July 2019 in Saada, Yemen....
Save the Children Hong Kong is deeply concerned about the horrific child abuse case charged in 2019, where a 22-month-old baby girl died after being tortured while in the care of a cohabiting couple. The two were prosecuted with child abuse and given a five years and...
