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First child dies of Ebola in new outbreak in Uganda
Save the Children is distressed to learn a five-year-old boy diagnosed with Ebola in Uganda on Tuesday has died from the illness. The child was isolated and admitted for treatment, but medics were unable to save him. Another two cases have now been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases in Uganda in the past 24 hours to three.
Save the Children: ‘Investigate senseless killings in Mali, hold attackers to account’
Charred bodies of children are found after horrific attack on village
Save the Children Welcomes Canada’s Historic Investment to Support Women and Girls Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
VANCOUVER, B.C., June 4, 2019 – Save the Children welcomes the Government of Canada’s historic investment to advance the health and rights of women, adolescents, girls and boys around the globe, starting in 2020 and scaling up to $1.4 billion annually until 2030. Today’s significant funding will support sexual reproductive health and rights of women and girls – with a welcome focus on adolescent girls, while continuing Canada’s longstanding leadership on child and newborn protection and…
More than a quarter of a billion children better off today than 20 years ago
Major successes in Canada’s priority areas of gender equality, global health and focus on Africa, but one in four children denied their right to protection and health, most acutely in conflict or displacement settings.
At least 400 children still separated from parents in Mozambique amidst major funding shortfall
BEIRA - More than two months after Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, at least 400[1] children in the worst-affected province of Sofala are still living separated from their parents as an effect of the storm, according to a new assessment by Save the Children.
Thousands of Families—Including 80,000 Children—Forced to Flee Escalating Violence in Northwest Syria
Thousands of families have fled from northern Hama to villages and towns close to the Turkish border, taking refuge in fields and on the sides of the road as overcrowded camps populations quadrupled in some areas, Save the Children said today.
Three in four child casualties in world’s deadliest conflicts caused by explosive weapons
Suicide bombs, landmines, unexploded ordinance, air strikes and other forms of explosives account for 72% of child deaths and injuries across the world’s deadliest war zones, new analysis by Save the Children reveals today[i].
Flooding and devastation - fears for safety of hundreds of thousands of children as Cyclone Fani wreaks havoc
- Save the Children teams on high alert as the cyclone travels towards West Bengal and Bangladesh
