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Children Flee Homes After Second Major Earthquake in Two Months

KABUL, November 3, 2025 – Another massive earthquake in Afghanistan - the second in two months - forced children to flee their homes in the middle of the night and caused at least 20 deaths and ...
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COVID-19: Children From Poorest Households Had Greatest Financial and Education Loss, Highest Risk of Violence at Home

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Sept. 9, 2020)—The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the education of children from poorer backgrounds and is widening the gap between rich and poor and boys and ...
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Bolivia Bans Child Marriage Following Campaign by Children and Civil Society Organizations, Including Save the Children

LA PAZ (Sept. 18, 2025)—Bolivia has become the 14th country in Latin America to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the practice.
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Children Starved in Plain Sight as Famine Confirmed in Gaza

LONDON/GENEVA, August 22, 2025 – At least 132,000 children aged under five in Gaza are at risk of death from acute malnutrition as new data confirms famine in Gaza City and the surrounding area and ...
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Congressional Rescission of U.S. Assistance Puts Kids at Risk Around the World

WASHINGTON (July 18, 2025) — Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) today expressed deep disappointment following congressional passage of the administration’s $9 billion ...
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Afghanistan: Surge in Arrivals from Iran with about 80,000 Children Crossing the Border in June

KABUL, (July 2, 2025) – About 80,000 Afghan children crossed into Afghanistan from Iran in June, as total arrivals more than doubled compared to May, pushing an already overstretched system to the ...
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Education Spending in Pakistan Hits New Low with More than One in Three Children Out of School

ISLAMABAD (June 19, 2025) — Government spending on education in Pakistan has fallen to a new low in the past year despite being declared a national emergency with 26 million children - or more than ...
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Acute Malnutrition Soars in South Sudan with Millions of Children at Risk Following Aid Cuts

JUBA, (Friday, June 13, 2025) – A deadly mix of conflict, climate change, and poverty has pushed 2.3 million children aged under 5 in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates ...
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About 300,000 Children Risk Losing Education as Learning Centers in Rohingya Camps Shut Due to Funding Cuts

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (June 5, 2025) – About 300,000 [1] children risk missing out on education after UNICEF, Save the Children and partners were forced to close learning facilities in the Rohingya ...
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In Gaza, Nearly Every Single Child is at Risk of Famine

GAZA (May 12, 2025)—The lives of the 1.1 million children in Gaza are urgently threatened by spiraling acute food insecurity as new data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...
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MYANMAR: More than 40,000 people, including children, living in shelters one month after earthquake – Save the Children

YANGON, 24 April 2025 - More than 40,000 [1] people are living in tents and other makeshift shelters one month after Myanmar's devastating earthquake with ongoing seismic activity making it impossible ...
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South Sudan: Children with cholera die on three-hour walk for treatment after aid cuts shut local health clinics

JUBA, (April 9, 2025) – At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the ...