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MIDDLE EAST AND REGIONAL ESCALATION: 5 WAYS TO TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT CONFLICT
Experts at Save the Children share five tools and tips that caregivers can use to approach the conversation with children:
SUDAN: Lifeline for thousands of children as first vaccine shipment in nearly three years arrives in South Kordofan
The first shipment of vaccines to South Kordofan state in nearly three years will restore lifesaving immunisation services to children and communities cut off from essential supplies due to conflict and siege.
NEWS QUOTE: “Schools are not battlefields”: Save the Children calls for all children to be protected as violence escalates across the Middle East and the wider region
Save the Children has called for the protection of all children and civilian infrastructure, especially schools and hospitals, following the escalation of violence in the Middle East and wider region, with reports of more than 100 children killed in strikes on two schools in Iran.
ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF CHILDREN IN ASIA LACK ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER DESPITE GLOBAL GOAL
“Across Asia, there are children who wake up each day without the certainty of safe drinking water. When a child drinks unsafe drinking water the consequences ripple far beyond illness. It can mean days missed from play and school, stolen energy and even lifelong, serious health problems that children carry with them into adulthood."
Afghanistan: About 25,000 children living and learning in tents six months after deadly earthquake
The earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on 31 August last year was one of the deadliest to ever hit the country, killing more than 2,000 people and destroying or damaging more than 8,000 homes, forcing children and families into tents.
SOMALIA: One in three people facing severe food shortages as hunger surges towards 2022 peak
One in three people are facing severe food shortages in Somalia as worsening drought, conflict, and soaring food prices drive up hunger levels, with the situation nearly as bad as in 2022 when the country was on the brink of famine.
MOZAMBIQUE - More than 230,000 children out of school as worst flooding in decades hits schools– Save the Children
NEPAL: Children urge politicians to prioritise education, child rights in election triggered by Gen-Z protests – Save the Children
A Save the Children assessment in the immediate aftermath of the protests revealed grave violations of children’s rights by state security forces, including deaths, injuries, arbitrary arrests and widespread trauma among children and young people. The assessment also exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s child protection systems during political unrest.
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