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...
Tragic drowning of Rohingya caused by desperation
Source: Save The Children
Following news reports of over a dozen Rohingya refugee women and children who drowned when their boat sank off the coast...
2020 could be Shell’s year of reckoning
Source: Amnesty International NZ
In 2020 Shell will face unprecedented legal scrutiny over decades of human rights abuses in Nigeria, Amnesty International said today, as...
How to keep your communications safe in 2020
Source: Amnesty International NZ
From sophisticated spyware attacks to mass phishing via smartphones and the rise of facial recognition technology, the range and reach of...
Save the Children delivers 36,000 face masks to Wuhan
Source: Save The Children
Masks will be used by healthcare workers working in the two public hospitals in Wuhan. More photos are available here.
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Over 55,000 grave crimes committed against children in African conflict zones in five years...
Source: Save The Children
There have been more than 55,882 grave violations against children in conflict affected areas in Africa between 2014 and 2018 according...
Explainer: Seven ways the coronavirus affects human rights
Source: Amnesty International NZ
The outbreak of the coronavirus (2019-nCov) that started in the Chinese city of Wuhan (Hubei province) in late 2019 has been declared a...
U.S. Land Mine Policy Change Endangers Children
Source: Save The Children
ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, and the Terre des hommes Foundation are deeply troubled by the decision of the...
STATEMENT ON US LANDMINES POLICY REVERSAL
Source: Save The Children
As an organization that was founded to address the plight of children affected by conflict in the aftermath of World War...
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE TO FGM: GIRLS IN ETHIOPIA CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE
Source: Save The Children
Saada* age 10 (in red) with her friends and fellow anti-FGM campaigners at school in Harar, Ethiopia.
In Ethiopia, 65% of women...
OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand
OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks
Wednesday, February 5: Reports that Austrian oil giant OMV has accidentally cut through...
Hundreds of thousands in northwest Syria caught in humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies warn
Source: Save The Children
As hostilities continue to escalate in northwest Syria, eight aid agencies are today making an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire...
