Explosive weapons killed or injured children at unprecedented levels last year as wars increasingly shifted into densely populated urban areas, Save the Children warned in a new report on Thursday. Citing UN data, the charity said nearly 12,000 children were killed or wounded in conflict zones worldwide in 2024 — the highest figure since records […]
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Imminent threat of climate crisis must be faced head on: Amin Aslam
Save the Children Pakistan launched a RED ALERT campaign on Climate in partnership with the Ministry of Climate Change. The ministry held a child-led advocacy event that highlighted the importance of taking a step back to realise the damage that has been done to the environment and how that will negatively affect children. Minister for […]
Fifty schools in Gaza damaged by Israeli airstrikes
WEB DESK According to Humanitarian Aid Organization ‘Save The Children’, around 50 schools in Gaza have been damaged by Israeli airstrikes in the past few weeks. As a result, over 41,000 children have been impacted. Of the 219 people who have been killed in Gaza, at least 63 are children, according to the health ministry. […]
Kabul aid groups reel after nine killed in Taliban attack
Humanitarian groups were reeling Thursday from yet another attack targeting aid workers in Afghanistan, as officials confirmed nine people had been killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul a day earlier. Wednesday’s attack outside Counterpart International, a non-profit group working with marginalized people in Afghanistan, began with an immense blast from a car bomb in […]
Gunmen attack Save the Children office in east Afghanistan
JALALABAD: Gunmen blasted their way into Save the Children’s office in Afghanistan’s restive east on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others in the latest attack on a foreign aid group in the war-torn country. After blowing up a car outside the British charity’s compound in Jalalabad city, […]