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Astana Syria talks happening in a ‘parallel reality’ as children continue to live under bombing and siege: Save the Children
As parties to the conflict in Syria meet in Astana, Kazakhstan today, Save the Children is warning that hundreds of thousands of children are still trapped and being bombed and denied aid in besieged and hard-to-reach areas. More than two weeks after the start of a partial truce, there has been an appalling lack of progress on aid deliveries, underlining the risk that these talks will focus on narrow military and political gains at the expense of helping the most vulnerable.
Statement on Mosul by Save the Children’s Middle East Advocacy Director, Misty Buswell
January 18, 2017…“Many families have escaped the horrors of Mosul, but at least 300,000 children remain trapped in the west of the city and now face the prospect of a brutal siege.
World is More Than 450 Years Off Target From Meeting Child Poverty Promise
January 15, 2017…The world is 452 years away from delivering on the promise of ending extreme child poverty, new figures commissioned by Save the Children show. This timescale of four and half centuries is as remote from today as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Almost no aid has reached Syria’s besieged areas despite ‘truce’: Save the Children
January 13, 2017…Two weeks on from the start of the ceasefire agreement in Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey on 30th December, the majority of besieged areas have yet to receive any humanitarian aid despite the freezing winter conditions.
Yemen hospitals on the brink of closure as health system collapse leaving 8 million children without access to healthcare
December 19, 2016…Yemen’s health system is on the brink of collapse, according to a new briefing by Save the Children which includes interviews with doctors and parents in the war-ravaged country.
Injured and orphaned children must be evacuated from East Aleppo today
December 15, 2016…As the delayed evacuation from the remaining opposition-held part of Aleppo appears to have begun, Save the Children is urging the immediate transfer of injured and orphaned/separated children to safe areas.
David Oyelowo heads cast including Bono and Aliko Dangote in plea to save 400,000 children from looming Nigeria famine
December 2, 2016…As humanitarian donors prepare to gather in Geneva, award-winning British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo has joined Nigerian luminaries and international charities in writing an open letter warning global leaders of the tens of thousands of children who could starve in North East Nigeria unless the world acts immediately.
