Storms, floods, heat waves, droughts or persistent rain – the climate crisis is fundamentally changing our world. This has serious consequences, especially for the lives of the youngest. Around 720 million children worldwide are affected by the climate crisis.
On 27 September, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its recommendations on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Switzerland. Save the Children very much welcomes the fact that the Committee on the Rights of the Child gives so much attention to the difficult situation of refugee and migrant children and urgently recommends that Switzerland improves the implementation of their rights.
On the 14th of August 2021, the earth quaked in Haiti – buildings were destroyed and thousands of people lost their lives, their homes or were injured. About a month after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake, the situation in the south of the island is still unclear and chaotic. Many children are in need of food, water and safe shelter.
Save the Children restarted its life-saving services in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar today. The agency said it had carried out thorough security checks to ensure that both male and female staff would safely be able to return to work delivering essential health and nutrition services for children.
Save the Children urged aid-giving governments not to turn their backs on millions of hungry Afghan children ahead of a high-level UN meeting on Afghanistan today. The country is facing a humanitarian emergency that is worsening due to rising food prices, drought, and increased displacements
The education of hundreds of millions of children in a quarter of the world’s countries is at extreme or high risk of collapsing. Our new analysis finds that factors such as climate change, a lack of COVID-19 vaccines, displacement, attacks on schools and lack of digital connectivity are jeopardising access to schooling.
The last of the international military forces pulled out of Kabul on Tuesday. The war took a deadly cost on children: Almost 33,000 children have been killed and maimed in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, an average of one child every five hours.
Chris Nyamandi, Save the Children's Country Director in Afghanistan, shares his thoughts on the current situation for children in Afghanistan and Save the Children's work on the ground since 1976. He makes clear how important it is that we continue to work for a future for children in Afghanistan.
Save the Children is extremely concerned that a severe hunger crisis facing children in drought-hit Afghanistan will escalate with aid efforts on hold, putting thousands of young lives at risk as the world faces its biggest hunger crisis of the 21st century.
Following a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that leveled parts of Haiti on Saturday, killing some 1,300 people and injuring thousands, Save the Children is racing to cover basic needs of the most severely affected children and families as a tropical storm approaches.