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Fleeing for safety: conflict and violence displaces one in ten children in Yemen
Over 1.5 million children across Yemen have been forced from their homes. That’s 1 in 10 children; more than all children aged 14-and-under in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary and Halifax, combined.[i]
Save the Children appoints two new women board members to guide organization’s goal to reach every last child
As Save the Children marks its 100th year as a global children’s rights organization, two new members are joining the Canadian Board of Directors, to help guide the organization’s ambitious goals to reach every last child.
Save the Children stands in solidarity with land defenders of the Wet’suwet’en territory
Save the Children strongly supports community members defending Wet’suwet’en land in British Columbia. Community members are concerned about recent run-ins with RCMP, which have threatened the overall safety and well-being of their lives and neighbours, particularly as they pertain to a healing-lodge in the affected area.
SYRIA: Fears for more than 11,000 children in Idlib as flooding hits camps
B-roll, interviews and photographs from flooded camps in Idlib are available here
Yemen: Save the Children Statement on Reported Agreement for Hodeidah Ceasefire, Sana’a Airport Reopening
Bill Chambers, Save the Children Canada’s President and CEO, said:
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:
