Wage increases outpace income support for children
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
05 May 2021
Families in low-paid work with three children would have received up to $1900 more over the last...
60 million children across eight of the biggest humanitarian crises need help to survive...
Source: Save The Children
Half of all the children in need in 2021 live in just eight countries.
COVID-19 has put decades of progress at risk...
150 million additional children plunged into poverty due to COVID-19, UNICEF, Save the Children...
Source: Save The Children
New analysis reveals the number of children living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation, or...
Fears for children’s safety as families in Turkey caught in aftermath of earthquake
Source: Save The Children
Save the Children is deeply concerned for children and their families after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea,...
Teen pregnancies in South Africa jump 60% during COVID-19 pandemic
Source: Save The Children
The number of children born to teen mothers in South Africa’s most populous province, Gauteng, has jumped 60% since the start...
Fears for 20 million children as year’s strongest storm approaches the Philippines
Source: Save The Children
There are fears for the safety of more than 20 million children as the year’s most powerful storm approaches the Philippines,...
Statement: Burned bodies of women, children found in Myanmar; Save the Children staff missing
Source: Save The Children
25 December, Burma – Save the Children has today condemned an attack by the Myanmar military in which at least 38...
“It’s a day I felt my voice was truly powerful”
Source: Save The Children
I am Puhiza Shemsedini, 15 years old girl from Kosovo. I am the chairwoman of the child-led group “Respect Our Rights”...
NEW REPORT: On average 25 children killed or injured in conflicts every day for...
Source: Save The Children
Save the Children calls for states to endorse declaration on avoiding use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
A total of 93,236...
Spike in killing and recruitment of children and youth in Colombia
Source: Save The Children
Bogotá, 2nd October – Dozens of children have been killed, maimed, and recruited by armed groups in a recent surge of...
Sub-Saharan Africa: 426 children per day at risk of death from hunger following impact...
Source: Save The Children
An estimated 67,000 children are at risk of dying from extreme hunger across Sub-Saharan Africa before the end of the year,...
Children in conflict at highest risk of violence since records began
Source: Save The Children
New analysis also reveals how conflict affects girls and boys differently:
Nine in ten child victims of sexual violence are girls;
Boys are...