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LATEST NEWS
Girls Pay the Price As Aid Cuts Hit Countries with Deepest Gender Inequality
The analysis, released on International Day of the Girl, found that 17 of the 20 countries most severely affected by global aid cuts this year were ranked as having ‘poor’ (4) or ‘very poor’ (13) gender equality on the global SDG Gender Index.
Children flee schools as third earthquake in 10 days strikes the Philippines
Davao, the most populous area close to the epicentre of the quake in the Mindanao archipelago, is home to about 2 million children, based on the latest government census. Classes have been suspended in Davao where about 1.3 million children are enrolled in school.
Bombed Dreams: Children’s drawings of futures shattered by two years of war in Gaza
From destroyed homes and playgrounds to dreams of becoming doctors, writers, and fashion designers, children in Gaza have expressed how two years of war have reshaped their lives and risk shattering their dreams in a series of drawings released today by Save the Children
Pause in hostilities a crucial relief for children in Gaza – now it must become a definitive and lasting ceasefire
Reports of an impending pause in hostilities in Gaza signals a hopeful reprieve on the horizon for families and children, but must be a turning point to secure a definitive ceasefire, said Save the Children.
PHILIPPINES EARTHQUAKE: 10 percent of learners still out of school as children terrified by thousands of aftershocks
Children in Cebu are still in urgent need of water, shelter, psychosocial support to help them to process what they experienced and to prevent long-term setbacks in education.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE, ONE MONTH ON: "We have nothing of our own" - Orphaned children cared for by families reliant on aid
Families have lost their main breadwinners across Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, the areas most impacted by the earthquakes.
Somalia becomes 52nd African country to ratify charter to better protect child rights
The landmark ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child this week means the government of Somalia is now legally obliged to align national laws and policies with the provisions of the charter that was established 35 years ago.
SOUTH SUDAN: SIXTH YEAR OF FLOODING DEEPENS ONE OF WORLD’S WORST HUNGER CRISES
This year an estimated 1.4 million people – about one sixth of the population in the world’s newest country – face the threat of flooding.
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