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AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Tents become delivery rooms as babies born with winter approaching
Babies are being born in tents in earthquake-devastated Eastern Afghanistan with rock falls and boulder-strewn roads making the journey to hospital perilous for pregnant women, Save the Children said. An estimated 11,000 women in the earthquake-affected areas are currently pregnant and could give birth in tents in coming months, where temperatures regularly fall below freezing in winter, escalating health risks for newborns.
SOMALIA: Nearly half of Somalia’s youngest children at risk of malnutrition amid crises and aid shortfalls
The figures reveal that 4.4 million people, or just under a quarter of the population, are now expected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity by the end of 2025.
NUMBER OF CHILDREN FACING MALNUTRITION IN CONFLICT FAILS TO IMPROVE AS GLOBAL GOAL TO END HUNGER OFF TRACK
As leaders meet at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), an analysis of the latest data by Save the Children found in 20 conflict-affected countries, more than one in three children- were stunted.
INGOs call for urgent protection of civilians fleeing Al Fasher as world leaders met at United Nations
Markets, hospitals, mosques, and displacement camps have been repeatedly targeted, leaving families without food, medicine, or safe shelter. Civilians attempting to flee face extortion, ethnic targeting, sexual violence, and killings along the routes, while prohibitive costs make escape impossible for most.
World leaders urged to join forces in a new UN declaration to protect aid workers in deadliest year yet: Save the Children
The Australia-led Declaration – launching today at the UN General Assembly in New York –aims to strengthen compliance and implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2730, which calls on States to respect and protect United Nations and humanitarian personnel in accordance with their obligations under international law.
GAZA: Failure by the UN Security Council to pass a ceasefire resolution is an abdication of legal and moral responsibility to children
“It is clearer now than ever before that not only the Government of Israel but also the international community has the moral and legal responsibility to stop this. If now is not the moment, when is?"
BOLIVIA BANS CHILD MARRIAGE FOLLOWING CAMPAIGN BY CHILDREN AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING SAVE THE CHILDREN
Bolivia becomes the 14th country in Latin America to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalise the practice.
FINLAND: One in three girls facing sexual abuse online with messages often becoming sexual in under an hour – Save the Children
A survey of 4,106 children aged 11 to 17 found that at least 31% of respondents had been contacted by an adult online, and two-thirds of those had experienced sexual abuse.
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