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Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2017
The 2017 Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict Report reveals an alarming increase in grave violations against children—21,000 verified occurences in the last year alone (compared to 15,500 in 2016). Children in conflict areas in the Central Af
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Dangerous Ground: Syria's refugees face an uncertain future
Since the beginning of the eight-year crisis, over 6 million people have fled Syria. This constitutes over half of the pre-war population of the nation. The change in the Syrian military landscape in 2017 saw the advancement of the Syrian army and the dec
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Idlib: Children's lives on the line
Today, an estimated 2.9 million people live in Idlib and the surrounding areas. At least 1.4 million of those are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who have already been forced to flee their homes at least once. Some children in Idlib have moved seven
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Voices from Syria's Danger Zones
The conflict in Syria is entering its eighth year- 2557 days of brutal violence and heartbreak- Syrian children are being killed, maimed, displaced, denied an education, healthcare and aid, on a daily basis. The conflict is not de-escalating. "De-escalati
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Promise to Practice: Following through on commitments to support the future of Syria and the region
The conflict in Syria has created the largest displacement crisis in well over a generation, possibly since the second world war. Six million people remain displaced internally, more than five million are registered as refugees in neighbouring countries a
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Syria
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Syria.
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Beyond Survival: Seven years of war on Syria's children
In February 2018, World Vision spoke to 1,254 Syrian girls and boys in Southern Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. They talked about their daily lives, their hopes for the future and the things they think about. Their stories included war-induced violence, displa
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Boy in Ghouta, Syria (video)
On inspecting the destruction left behind by of a series of missile strikes around one month ago, staff come across a young boy trying to salvage his family's belongings from the site where his house used to stand. Since then, thousands of families trappe
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Assessing the Impacts of Literacy Learning Games for Syrian Refugee Children: An executive overview of Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster Impact Evaluations
The crisis in Syria has left 2.3 million children without an education, many of which are now living in displacement in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Greece, and Italy. There are many obstacles to the continuation of schooling for these children: the tra
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Syrian Refugee Children in Egypt Express their Hopes and Aspirations
As the Syria Crisis enters its eighth year, Save the Children spoke to Syrian refugee children in Egypt about what their hopes, aspirations, and dreams for the future are.
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Invisible Wounds: The impact of six years of war on the mental health of Syria's children
For the past six years, children in Syria have been bombed and starved. They have seen their friends and families die before their eyes or buried under the rubble of their homes. They have watched their schools and hospitals destroyed, been denied food, m
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Child Labour: The new reality for refugee children
The number of child laborers in Jordan has more than doubled in the period between 2008 and 2017, to an estimated 70,000 child laborers among Jordanians and Syrians. While there is a lack of data, the situation is expected to be similar in Lebanon. Child