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More than 3.4m children in Pakistan facing chronic hunger: report – Dawn
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More than 3.4m children in Pakistan facing chronic hunger: report – Dawn

More than 3.4 million children in Pakistan are facing chronic hunger, with an estimated 76,000 children in flood-hit areas now experiencing severe food shortages and risking severe malnutrition, according to ‘Save the Children’ — a development organisation working for humanitarian and development programs with a focus on the needs and rights of children. In a…

Arendalsuka 2022: Equipping businesses to combat modern slavery
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Arendalsuka 2022: Equipping businesses to combat modern slavery

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. Businesses were given the opportunity to explore how they might use and develop technological solutions to contribute to the fight against modern slavery….

Heroes in the worldwide fight against human trafficking – US Embassy in Georgia
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Heroes in the worldwide fight against human trafficking – US Embassy in Georgia

A volunteer with the humanitarian group Save the Children sits next to a banner at the Romanian-Ukrainian border in Siret, Romania, on March 7. (© Andreea Alexandru/AP Images) Human traffickers continued to exploit vulnerable and marginalized communities in 2021 and 2022, according to the latest U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report, released July 19….

Don't become a single mother, so get married at a young age – News84Media.com
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Don't become a single mother, so get married at a young age – News84Media.com

Author: Raksha Singh Shravasti and Lalitpur district. Two places where a maximum of child brides from UP live. In Shravasti, 1 in 2 girls marry before the age of 18. 1 out of 3 in Lalitpur. This thing came out in the “NFHS, i.e. National Family Health Survey”. Dainik Bhaskar reached both districts one by…

The UN Security Council Fails Children in Syria by Only Renewing Cross Border Aid Route
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The UN Security Council Fails Children in Syria by Only Renewing Cross Border Aid Route

At a time when the needs of children in Syria have never been greater, Save the Children calls on the United Nations Security Council to commit to keeping what is currently the only effective route for aid into North West Syria open for the long term after voting to only reauthorize the crossing for six…

Govt's inaction on child protection cost Malawi K245bn in 2019 alone
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Govt's inaction on child protection cost Malawi K245bn in 2019 alone

The Malawi Government lost K245 billion in 2019 due to its inaction on child protection, representing a 4.3 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Deputy Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, Agnes Nkusa Nkhoma, has since described the figure as a big loss to Malawi, stressing that Malawians need to do…

Top 5 Ways to Help Refugees Now – HS Today
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Top 5 Ways to Help Refugees Now – HS Today

World events like drought, famine, and increased severe weather are displacing more and more people around the globe. According to the Pew Research Center, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the sixth largest outflow of refugees over the past sixty years. Over 100 million people are currently displaced. Many people are looking for…

HUGE PROBLEM | City gov't rolls out awareness campaign on human trafficking
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HUGE PROBLEM | City gov't rolls out awareness campaign on human trafficking

AMONG the issues that have been relegated to the back burner since the global health pandemic struck in the past two years are Trafficking in Persons and Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC). Photo by Kate Oseen on Unsplash Jeanette Ampog, executive director of Talikala, a non-government organization helping women and children, said…

Forced Marriage and Human Trafficking
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Forced Marriage and Human Trafficking

Forced Marriage in the United States The United States is not aligned with the United Nations and international law when it comes to forced marriage. Unlike the United Nations, the United States government views forced marriage only as a human rights violation, and as being different than human trafficking. The U.S. government states that forced…

‘Save the Children’ and the Truth About Human Trafficking in East Tennessee
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‘Save the Children’ and the Truth About Human Trafficking in East Tennessee

While this hashtag may have started out with good intentions to spread awareness about human trafficking, many popular social media hashtags and movements can devolve into perpetuating something more mythical than grounded. Some of these movements can sometimes cast a shadow over the truth of the survivors we have the privilege to serve. It is a smokescreen for human traffickers. This is dangerous.