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15 Dec 2025
global
Aid After 2025: Why the Private Sector must become core to humanitarian response
As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.
10 Dec 2025
global
Why children need safer, age-appropriate online spaces and not blanket bans
As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.
22 Oct 2025
What the Ceasefire means for Children in Gaza – and what comes next
The announcement of a pause in hostilities offers a moment of hope for children and families in Gaza. But while it provides a brief respite, it is not enough.
19 Mar 2025
global
Foreign Aid Cuts: The real impact on children and our programmes
Foreign aid funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat globally. Over 40 countries we operate in have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Learn more about the real impact of foreign cuts on children and our programmes in this blog.
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Ending Child Marriage: A New Dawn in Sierra Leone
In a monumental step for children's rights, Sierra Leone's parliament has passed a landmark bill prohibiting child marriage.
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Addressing the Climate Crisis: Consulting children on environmental issues in Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire has just passed a new environmental code that gives children the chance to be involved in the protection of their environment.
It's never too late to learn: Accelerated learning classes for displaced children in Mali
Showing impact of the accelerated learning classes implemented by Save the Children in Mali for displaced people.
The Power of Play
It’s more critical than ever that every child can realise and celebrate their universal right to play.
Sudan Staff Account: "The girl’s horrendous experience reminded me of my own experience when an explosive device fell into our compound"
A staff account from a health manager working in Sudan. In this blog he speaks about how the conflict is impacting people in North Darfur.
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I am safe and they are not - The anguished reality of a Palestinian in Egypt
An anguished account by a young Palestinian that is stranded in Cairo whilst his family is enduring the war in Gaza.
Floods in Afghanistan: What do they mean for children?
Explainer about the situation in Afghanistan since the flash floods that have left over 40,000 children homeless.
At the forefront of the hunger crisis in the DRC - A paediatric nurse's account
Testimony by Jean-Claude a pediatric nurse in DRC who is at the forefront of the hunger crisis and is treating malnourished children daily.