Category: Children of War

In the early years of Hitler’s rule, the Nazis attempted to make life so unpleasant for Jews that they would be forced to emigrate. Yet few other countries were willing to accept an influx of Jewish refugees. Many countries, including Britain, tightened their immigration policies. In the summer of 1938, 32 countries met in Évian, France, to address the growing refugee crisis. But virtually all refused to allow more Jews in. However, 9 November 1938 saw an alarming turning point in Nazi anti-Semitism. Throughout German occupied territory, a wave of

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Soraya Ali witnessed the suffering of children in Gaza earlier this month (Image: Save the Children) On my first day in Rafah, Gaza, my colleague Hawa’s mother had a stroke. With no ambulance available, her mother was driven to a partially functioning hospital. She died two days later. “The sadness from this war killed her,” Hawa later told me. I arrived in Gaza with Save the Children – as part of a convoy of paediatricians, surgeons, and fellow aid workers – to support children affected by the growing humanitarian catastrophe.

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‘Why does everyone have 2 legs but me?’ Children learn to live with prosthetics after being injured by Russia’s war Eleven-year-old Oleksandr Reshetniak from Kharkiv Oblast still vividly remembers holding the stump of his torn-off leg, trying to stop the bleeding. On Jan. 17, Oleksandr and his 13-year-old cousin Alina were heading to a grocery store in his native village of Malyi Burluk, near Kupiansk, in the ea…

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Children’s lives, safety, well-being and futures are under attack in an increasingly dangerous and unequal world. In 2023 millions of children suffered the consequences of conflict, extreme climate events, deadly disease outbreaks, global economic shocks and mass displacement, which threaten their safety, wellbeing and futures. In 2024 these threats are only set to intensify. Nearly 300 million people – or 1 in 27 people – will require humanitarian assistance this year. Conflict and climate disasters have also forced more people from their homes than at any other time since the

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More than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone and less than five kilometers (3 miles) away from gunfire, shelling and other deadly violence over the past year of war, said Save the Children. Analysis by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) on behalf of Save the Children found that one in two children in Sudan are currently or have been within five kilometers (3 miles) of the frontlines of the conflict within the last year, leaving them exposed to gunfire, shelling, airstrikes and other

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Download logo More than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone and less than five kilometres away from gunfire, shelling and other deadly violence over the past year of war, said Save the Children. Analysis by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) on behalf of Save the Children found that one in two children in Sudan are currently or have been within five kilometers of the frontlines of the conflict within the last year, leaving them exposed to gunfire, shelling, airstrikes and other

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Save the Children warns 230,000 children, new mothers could also die of hunger without critical action to stop the conflict. More than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone during almost a year of war, a new report has warned, as it called on political leaders to take immediate action to stop the conflict. In a report published on Wednesday, the United Kingdom-based charity, Save The Children, said that half of Sudan’s children are currently or have been within five kilometres of the front lines of the

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Content available here  KHARTOUM, 10 April 2024 – More than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone and less than five kilometres away from gunfire, shelling and other deadly violence over the past year of war, said Save the Children. Analysis by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) on behalf of Save the Children found that one in two children in Sudan are currently or have been within five kilometers of the frontlines of the conflict within the last year, leaving them exposed to gunfire,

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