Nepal: Girl cricketers who successfully campaigned to end child marriage play in first provincial...
Source: Save The Children
Ria* and her cricket team in Madhesh Province, Nepal. Credit: Suzanne Lee / Save the Children
KATHMANDU: 7 March 2024 – Teams...
Politics – Health coalition launches petition to protect school lunches
Source: Health Coalition Aotearoa
The programme offers 230,000 students in about 1,000 of the least advantaged schools’ healthy lunches – ensuring they receive at least one...
Fighting Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone
Source: Save The Children
Cousins Kuji*, 19 and Kpemeh*, 18 wear their Ending Child Marriage Champion t shirts in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. Shona Hamilton / Save...
Education – Food in Schools Top Priority Say Principals
Source: NZ Principals Federation
Minister Seymour's latest comments to scrap or severely limit the Food in Schools programme has upset school Principals across the country. The...
Major New Climate Resilience Project Launches in Sierra Leone
Source: Save The Children
Sierra Leone, 6 March, 2024— People facing rising seas, fiercer storms and hotter weather along Sierra Leone’s coast will benefit from...
Members bill to remove GST from kai, pulled from ballot
Source: Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and Member for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi is ecstatic his members bill to remove GST from kai has...
Te Pāti Māori Stands with Workers
Source: Te Pati Maori
Te Pāti Māori will be strongly opposing the Fair Pay Agreements Legislation Repeal Bill this Government is trying to pass before...
Govt must prioritise building more homes, not kicking people out
Source: Green Party
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for...
Child Poverty – Ka Ora, Ka Ako must stay: Save the Children calls for...
Source: Save the Children
Save the Children New Zealand is calling for continued investment in the Government’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme in...
University Research – Economic abuse common in New Zealand – UoA
Source: University of Auckland
Economic abuse compounds other forms of violence and pushes women into poverty, according to new research.
Economic abuse is common, affecting about...
Child Poverty – New Zealand’s hungry teens four years behind in their learning –...
Source: Health Coalition Aotearoa
Food poverty has contributed to New Zealand’s poor performance in an international educational achievement test for 15-year-olds, reigniting calls for broader access...
Floods and landslides disrupt the lives of 40,000 children in Bolivia – Save the...
Source: Save The Children
BOLIVIA, 1 March 2024 – More than 40,000 children in Bolivia have been affected by landslides, floods, and flash floods, and 12 have died in the...