Newsroom
Reporting from our field teams, the research behind our public positions, and statements on the decisions being taken about children’s lives.
9 stories in the archive
Our flagship review of childhood in 2026 finds the number of children living in active conflict areas has risen for the eleventh consecutive year — and sets out ten policy shifts that would reverse it.
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Field assessments from our teams describe families rationing water between drinking, cooking and washing — with children bearing the health consequences first.
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After floods destroyed her school, a twelve-year-old in central Malawi helped her teachers set up a temporary learning space. Six weeks later, attendance was higher than before.
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Repeated displacement in eastern DRC is separating children from their families faster than tracing systems can reunite them. Our teams have registered more cases this quarter than in the whole of last year.
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The emergency phase is over and the cameras have gone. We look at what is left to do in the districts worst hit by last spring's monsoon flooding and landslides.
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An independent evaluation of our work along South American migration corridors finds that screening children at transit points identifies acute malnutrition weeks earlier than clinic-based referral.
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Releasing money on a forecast trigger rather than after a harvest fails kept children in school and livestock alive across four programmes, at a fraction of the cost of a late response.
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Our teams have reopened inpatient centres for severely malnourished children in three states, negotiating access route by route as the conflict continues.
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As governments tighten spending, we are asking for one commitment: that school feeding is the last line cut, not the first. Sign the petition.
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