CP sub-cluster news In June CP sub-cluster in cooperation with Global Child protection area of responsibility and UNICEF Ukraine have conducted a 3-day training on MHPSS on the 3rd level of...
One billion children experience violence and abuse every year. That shocking figure has risen even higher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence prevention and response services have been disrupted...
CHILD-FOCUSED AGENCIES STATEMENT ON THE 2021 MINISTERIAL DECLARATION The United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is responsible for ensuring progress towards the...
Response: In May La Strada National Hot Line for Children and Youth in cooperation with UNICEF received 8 345 phone calls and messages from children, adolescents, youth and also adults, whose...
1.Introduction GU seasonal rains started in Middle Shabelle in late April which resulted flooding in Jowhar surrounding villages (Baarey, Bananey, Hansholey, Libigha and parts of jowhar town) and...
Every day, we bear witness to suffering and resilience. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, DRC, Honduras, Venezuela, Nigeria, Haiti, CAR, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan and beyond...
By Ingrid Maria Johansen, Chief Executive Officer, SOS Children’s Villages International One year ago, the lockdowns to fight the emerging pandemic began affecting our lives. Many have struggled to...
Introduction Although children have been spared the worst of the direct health effects of COVID-19, the pandemic has disrupted the delivery of essential health services and lives of hundreds of...
Brazil + 1 more
As hospitals in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and its capital city, Manaus, are overwhelmed after a surge of infections linked to a new Covid-19 variant, many people do not have access to basic...
Ethiopia + 4 more
718,000 children to be protected from violence in the next three years Hamburg, 20 January 2021 – Joint action for children’s rights in the Covid-19 pandemic: Joining Forces, an alliance of the six...
Zambia + 1 more
A prolonged drought in Zimbabwe and the southern part of Zambia, crop failure, the aftermath of cyclone Idai and macro-economic challenges, led to acute food insecurity at the start of 2020. Heavy...
By Sofía García García, Representative to the UN and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, Communications Advisor Advocacy at SOS Children’s Villages International One year on...
World + 1 more
Nearly 200 UK humanitarian, development and domestic charity leaders and leaders, including The National Federation of Women’s Institutes, Save the Children, Greenpeace UK, UNICEF UK and Friends of...
By nature, human beings have a deep desire to know who they are to feel valued, respected and connected. People acquire identity from various sources and this forms the foundation that helps them to...
Joint News Release Bangkok, 11 October 2020 - Six of the world’s largest child-focused international development sector organisations comprised of World Vision International, ChildFund Alliance, Plan...
Greece + 1 more
My name is Kourosh. I am 17 years old and I am from Iran. It is almost a year and a month since I have been living in refugee camps in Lesbos (Moria and KaraTepe refugee camps). Right now, the living...
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Steffen Braasch, CEO of SOS Children’s Villages International, issued the following statement following the fires at the Moria camp on Lesbos which left some 13,000 people without any shelter and...
Over the past days devastating fires burnt down the Moria Registration and Identification Center and surrounding areas, the EU Hotspot on the Greek island Lesvos. The fires have left thousands of...
By Amelia Andrews Child representatives and care leavers from South East Asia have called for increased support for continuing education, psychosocial care, finding jobs and affordable housing in the...
Introduction The EU’s intention to develop a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy represents an important opportunity for the EU to champion the rights of the child within its borders and across the...