A record-breaking 68.5 million individuals worldwide have been displaced from their homes as a result of persecution, conflict, or violence. Over 50% are children. When a displacement crisis occurs, aid agencies are equipped to mobilise massive...
Child participation is one of Save the Children’s thematic areas in accordance with Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which recognises that children have a right to have their views heard and considered. This...
Far more children choose to remain within, or close to, communities featuring high rates of migration, rather than to leave – yet we know surprisingly little about their reasons for doing so. This report addresses this critical gap in our...
In times of crisis, education can play a life-saving and life-sustaining role. But most children caught up in crisis are denied an education. More than half of the world’s refugee children – 3.7 million – don’t go to school. Having already lost...
The pledge to Leave No One Behind within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda has the potential to revolutionize how the world defines and strives for progress, putting the world’s most deprived and marginalised children first. One of its...
This report assesses the impact on children of being returned from Europe to Afghanistan. Through interviews with individual children, their parents or guardians, and with governmental and non-governmental actors, it builds a picture of children’s...
The lives and the health of millions of vulnerable children are at risk from a threat that receives too little attention – the rapid growth of the market for baby milk formula. The unique life-saving and life-enhancing benefits of breastfeeding...
In two urban areas of Indonesia and Thailand, Greater Jakarta and Bangkok, live some 20,000 refugees, with limited access to basic rights, waiting for resettlement or the chance to return to their countries of origin. This study seeks to build an...
Girls and boys, men and women, and persons with disabilities, are all effected differently during disasters, with a tendency to adopt different coping mechanisms and follow different paths. This child sensitive tip sheets shows how Save the...
The potential gain is extraordinary. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – with their underlying pledge to reach those furthest behind first – would ensure that all children are given the chance to fulfill their potential. It would...