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15 Dec 2025

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Aid After 2025: Why the Private Sector must become core to humanitarian response

As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.

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10 Dec 2025

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Why children need safer, age-appropriate online spaces and not blanket bans

As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.

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What the Ceasefire means for Children in Gaza – and what comes next

The announcement of a pause in hostilities offers a moment of hope for children and families in Gaza. But while it provides a brief respite, it is not enough. 

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19 Mar 2025

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Foreign Aid Cuts: The real impact on children and our programmes

Foreign aid funding cuts are putting our lifesaving work under threat globally.  Over 40 countries we operate in have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.  Learn more about the real impact of foreign cuts on children and our programmes in this blog. 

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Oriwela (2) is assessed as part of a nutrition survey run by the Emergency Health Unit in Zimbabwe

Child survival: Decades of progress at risk

Child survival: Decades of progress at risk

A medical staff member speaks to a mother and child in Somalia

COVID-19 in Somalia: Health and nutrition services under threat

COVID-19 in Somalia: Health and nutrition services under threat

Drawing by Heba*, 17, former child detainee.

What it means to be a Palestinian child in an Israeli prison in Coronavirus times

Former child detainees have told us that the conditions in which they are held in Israeli prisons are horrific

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Coronavirus Crisis Highlights Need for Child Benefits Globally

Coronavirus Crisis Highlights Need for Child Benefits Globally

Ahmad stands in Al Hol camp, Syria

First conflict, now coronavirus: "we are deprived of school"

First conflict, now coronavirus: "we are deprived of school"

Abdus Sobhan, frontline health worker, Save the Children’s HIV prevention project, Bangladesh

It's Time to Stand Together to Fight COVID-19

It's Time to Stand Together to Fight COVID-19

A doctor treats a child during the coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus – A Threat To Child Survival

Coronavirus – A Threat To Child Survival

Nosiku (36) receives her cholera vaccine from Save the Children-supported vaccinator Chitoshi (24) in Lusaka, Zambia

Immunisation – Why Vaccines Matter, Now More Than Ever

Immunisation – Why Vaccines Matter, Now More Than Ever