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Violence, flooding, and displacement push one million children in South Sudan to the brink of starvation
Juba, South Sudan - Save the Children is warning of a devastating large-scale hunger crisis among children in South Sudan, as new data shows a dramatic increase in food insecurity that has pushed one million children to the brink of starvation – as well as projections that this figure will rise by 13% in the first half of next year.
Needs, not money should guide fair access to COVID-19 vaccine
Toronto, 18 December: The roll out of COVID-19 vaccines in high-income countries is threatening to disrupt fair access to vaccines for all, Save the Children warned in a statement today. Even as some of the first wave of vaccines are now being reserved for all countries, governments of richer countries should not hoard the limited initial supply of available vaccines -- instead they must ensure a distribution based on needs and not on wealth, the organisation said.
SAVE THE CHILDREN – ‘School turned into nightmare after attack in Nigeria’
Shannon Ward, Save the Children’s Acting Country Director in Nigeria, said:
Number of out of school children doubles in northern Syria as coronavirus, poverty take their toll
Two out of three children in Northern Syria now lack access to education, says Save the Children
SYRIA: Save the Children welcomes repatriation of 70 children from North East, urges evacuation of medical cases
Following the news that the Government of Uzbekistan completed the repatriation of 98 people, including 25 women and 73 children from displacement camps in northeast Syria, Save the Children’s Syria Response Director Sonia Khush said:
Save the Children outlines the “Vulnerabilities Created and Exacerbated by the Covid-19 Pandemic” before the House of Commons Standing Committee
Toronto, December 3, 2020– Today Rachel Logel Carmichael, Head of Humanitarian Affairs and Taryn Russell, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Save the Children Canada spoke before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAEE) in response to the committees study on, “Vulnerabilities Created And Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic”.
MORE THAN 20,000 CHILDREN IN YEMEN FACING DEATH FROM STARVATION IN 2021, WARNS SAVE THE CHILDREN
Toronto – December 3, 2020—Save the Children is alarmed and deeply concerned by the new UN report[1][1] on food insecurity in Yemen, revealing that 16.2 million people in the country are facing high levels of acute food shortages early next year. This includes 7.35 million children, with an estimated 21,338 children at risk of falling into famine.
Hundreds of Ethiopian separated child refugees arriving in Sudan at risk of exploitation and abuse, Save the Children warns
TORONTO, 1 December -- Save the Children is deeply worried about lone child refugees arriving separated from their parents from Ethiopia into Sudan, as they are at risk of exploitation and abuse. Their number could be in the hundreds, the child rights organization warned today.
