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Save the Children responds to deadly Syria school attack
In response to yesterday’s deadly attack on a school in Idlib and ongoing bombing of schools and hospitals in Syria, Nick Finney, Save the Children’s North-West Syria Country Director, said: “Save the Children is appalled by yesterday’s bombing of a school in Idlib, Syria, which reportedly killed 22 children. There is no excuse for bombing a school or other civilian infrastructure like hospitals, which should be known to the warring parties, and yet we see it happening time and again in Syria.
Children in Calais still sleeping rough as fires burn in the Jungle
October 27, 2016…Dozens of children were forced to sleep outside last night after being denied a safe place in Calais. The situation for children in Calais after the demolition is the worst it’s ever been, Save the Children is warning. Vulnerable children slept under bridges, outside warehouses and in the Jungle camp itself, which has become an increasingly volatile environment.
Hundreds of children in Calais ‘Jungle’ still at risk as bulldozers move in
October 25, 2016…As bulldozers move in to demolish the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp, Save the Children is warning that hundreds of unaccompanied children still have not been able to register and have nowhere safe to stay. Staff on the ground say children need to be to be moved to a secure area immediately, as the situation is increasingly volatile and tense.
Banned cluster bombs killing and maiming children in Aleppo
October 21, 2016… Aid workers and medical professionals in East Aleppo are reporting the widespread use of cluster bombs in recent months, weapons that are banned under International Humanitarian Law. Despite ‘humanitarian pauses’ taking place in Aleppo today, concerns are mounting for the increased number of children already injured by explosive weaponry who may be too unwell to leave or untreatable in the existing medical facilities which have been battered in the recent bombardment.
Desperate families flee into war-torn Syria to escape Mosul fighting
Thousands of desperate Iraqis are fleeing to a filthy and overcrowded Syrian refugee camp in an effort to escape the Mosul offensive, according to Save the Children’s team on the ground in northeast Syria.
Aleppo vigil mourns the hundreds of children killed and injured since ceasefire breakdown
October 18, 2016…One month since the breakdown of the Aleppo ceasefire, over five hundred children have been reported to have been killed or seriously injured. Hospitals have documented 136 deaths resulting from the recent bombardment in the east of the besieged city and 397 serious injuries. Many more deaths are believed to have gone unreported. The intensified bombardment of the city has isolated an estimated 100,000 children who are in need of food, clean water and urgent medical care.
Save the Children’s response to launch of offensive in Mosul
October 17, 2016…As Iraqi and coalition forces close in on Mosul, the lives of more than half a million children now hang in the balance.
Children dying of thirst, killed by landmines in flight from Mosul offensive
October 13, 2016…Children are dying of thirst or being killed by stepping on makeshift landmines as families desperately try to escape fresh fighting on the road to Mosul, according to Save the Children field staff.
