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A Children's Emergency February 2018

In this February Spotlight, we highlight Childhood Interrupted: Children's voices from the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, a child consultation report produced by Save the Children, World Vision, and Plan International. It is featured alongside other pertinent publications containing the most recent updates on the situation in Cox Bazar and what Save the Children has done, and is currently doing, to help Rohingya children in need.

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Young Voices Want to be Heard

“No one has ever asked what we think,” one child answered in the first survey of Young Voices, a project that was developed by Save the Children Sweden and has now been exported to several other countries, including Mongolia, Kosovo and Lithuania. Through innovative communication and advocacy activities, the project aims to make sure that duty-bearers hear the voices of young people and children.

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Local to Global programming: improving communities and children’s lives

In Save the Children Sweden’s Local to Global programme, experiences from working with children at the community level are used in advocacy. Children and community members are empowered to claim their rights in matters that concern them and to hold duty-bearers accountable. The programme is successfully contributing to concrete improvements in children’s lives in several countries, including Zambia.

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Children Rescued at Sea

In September 2016, Save the Children launched the Mediterranean rescue operation Rescue at Sea. During its three months of operation, Save the Children’s search and rescue team, aboard the organisation’s rescue ship Vos Hestia, rescued over 2,700 lives, including over 400 children.

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Only a child, already a mother

Globally, adolescent pregnancy implies a higher risk of maternal and infant mortality. It limits girls’ opportunities to learn, as pregnant girls many times have to drop out of school. Vulnerability to poverty, exclusion and dependency increases for young mothers as well as for their children.

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Paraguay – the 50:th state to ban corporal punishment of children

Now Paraguay has enacted a law that prohibits physical and humiliating punishment of children in all settings. This is a great step forward in the efforts to end the most common form of violence against children in Latin America and the rest of the world.

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World Humanitarian Summit -moving the agenda forward for refugee children

The World Humanitarian Summit promised to be a revolution in the way the world addresses humanitarian emergencies. One of the commitments made was that education should be seen as a humanitarian priority, just as important as food and shelter in a crisis.

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Poverty and discrimination - damaging the lives of millions of children worldwide

To ensure every child has an equal opportunity to survive and benefit from access to healthcare, education and nutrition regardless of who they are or where they live, Save the Children is today launching a new three-year campaign – Every Last Child.

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Mongolia bans physical and humiliating punishment of children

On the 17^th of March, Mongolia became the 49th State to prohibit physical and humiliating punishment of children in all settings including schools, institutions and homes. The new legislation is a way forward in the efforts to end violence against children in Asia and around the world.

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Children on the move: At risk beyond borders

Currently, the world is seeing one of the largest movements of refugees in recent history. An estimated 60 million people in the world are on the move; 30 million of them are children. The movement itself poses many risks to children, but on top of the immediate risks of injury and death, lack of essential services can have detrimental impacts on child development and well-being.