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Urgent Action Needed to Ensure Indigenous Women Are Not Sterilized Without Their Consent
Across Canada and as recently as 2017, Indigenous women report being forcibly or coercively sterilized. Some women were incorrectly told the procedure is reversible. Others were separated from their babies until they consented to a tubal ligation.
Save the Children welcomes adoption of historic pact on global migration
Save the Children welcomes the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration by the overwhelming majority of UN member states, today in Marrakesh, Morocco. This historic document establishes a solid platform for collaboration between countries to protect the rights of millions of migrant children – many of whom have faced unimaginable journeys, especially when travelling alone.
YEMEN: Famine or not, 120,000 children are in a ‘catastrophic’ condition
Save the Children Canada’s President and CEO Bill Chambers said:
What to give the person who has everything? Help them give back!
Save the Children offers range of livestock, medical and educational gifts to help millions of children in-need
When Canadians can give gifts for a good cause, even the pickiest people on their shopping list will light up with joy. Save the Children’s 2018 Gifts of Joy catalogue is out with so many options to chose from. Perhaps a goat that could help lift a family out of poverty; or ducks that can provide food and money-making fertilizer; maybe a donkey to help families commute and get hard…
Increasing insecurity and a significant rise in school attacks puts almost two decades of progress at risk for Afghan girls and boys
With twice as many UN-verified attacks on education in Afghanistan in the first half of 2018 than during the whole of 2017, urgent action is needed to prevent more Afghan children from being excluded from the education system, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) is warning today in a new briefing paper. Save the Children, a member of GCPEA, is particularly calling for an increased focus on ensuring girls have safe access to education, recognizing that of the over 3.7…
YEMEN: 85,000 children may have died from starvation since start of war
Urgent need to reach hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished children before it’s too late, warns Save the Children
Save the Children welcomes “Canadian Children’s Charter” in celebration of Universal Children’s Day
Save the Children is thrilled to welcome the Government of Canada’s newly announced Canadian Children’s Charter: a call to action to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of children.
Pneumonia to kill nearly 11 million children by 2030
Pneumonia is on course to kill nearly 11 million children by 2030, new analysis conducted by Johns Hopkins University and Save the Children reveals.
