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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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Save the children staff member tells of what it is really like to be a displaced person in Gaza right now.
Local Leaders at the Forefront of the Humanitarian Response in South Sudan
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HOW FAR CAN WE TRAVEL WITH AID ON OUR SHOULDERS? A WARNING ON GAZA FROM A HUMANITARIAN WORKER
Op-ed describing the dire situation faced by civilians and children in Gaza right now
‘How many trucks would be needed to carry 3,300 child-sized coffins?’
Testimony of Save the Children colleague in opt describing the pain and guilt she feels when seeing the terror and devastation in Gaza.