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Save the Children responds to new resolutions on climate change adopted by the UN Human Rights Council
Today, the Human Rights Council has adopted resolutions that:
COVID-19: Children globally struggling after lockdowns averaging six months
Toronto, 8 October – Children around the world have stayed indoors for an average of six months since the start of the pandemic, with growing concerns about rising levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and even self-harm, Save the Children has warned ahead of World Mental Health Day.
Health system collapse will result in thousands of additional child deaths each month in Afghanistan
Toronto, 6 October – The collapse of Afghanistan’s health system will result in the deaths of thousands more children under the age of five each month, Save the Children warned today.
Three children killed among 56 casualties in 72 hours as conflict escalates in Yemen
Three children and eight adults are reported to have been killed and at least 45 other people injured in the past three days in intensifying conflict across Yemen[i].
Children face life with far more heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires than grandparents
Toronto, 26 September – Children born over the past year[i] will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents under original Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges.
“When am I going to start to live?”: The urgent need to repatriate foreign children trapped in Al Hol and Roj Camps
Children abandoned by their governments are ‘wasting away’ in Syrian camps
Children in South Sudan say hunger is forcing them into child marriage and crime
Toronto, 23 September - Children in South Sudan said hunger was forcing more young people to drop out of school, putting girls at risk of early marriage and sexual exploitation, and forcing some boys into crime, according to Save the Children research being released on Thursday at the United Nations General Assembly.
Afghanistan: Save the Children shocked by reports that girls will not be allowed back to school
In response to the announcement today that secondary schools in Afghanistan will be reopening, but only for boys, Save the Children said it was critical that all children in Afghanistan have access to education.
