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A new report from War Child Alliance warns that deep cuts to humanitarian funding are leaving millions of children without access to life-saving protection, education and mental health and psychosocial support. At the same time as these cuts are widening the gap between children and critical support, conflict and violations against children are rising worldwide.
The world today is increasingly shaped by armed conflict – and children are bearing the greatest consequences.
As seen in Voice Out Loud #41, What Must Not Be Lost: Protecting People-Centered Humanitarian Action. Voice Out Loud is the magazine of VOICE, the European network of NGOs delivering principled humanitarian action worldwide.
Youth in Ukraine release their research findings on mental health and they have demands.
War Child responds to the UN Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict for 2025.
Last month, War Child accompanied a group of four youth advocates to an international conference on Children and Armed Conflict in Malta where they designed and hosted their own session. The youth presented recommendations of over 100 child and youth participants from War Child’s VoiceMore programmes in Colombia and Uganda to UN Member States, agencies, and civil society.
Three years into the brutal war in Sudan, tens of thousands of children, women, and men have been killed, starved, and maimed in what is today the world’s largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis. With the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and its impacts across the region showing no signs of abating, NGOs working across the region are alarmed at the insufficient funding response and diplomatic attention that this conflict and the consequent regional crisis is receiving.
War Child is thrilled to share that on Monday 30 March, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a biannual resolution on the rights of the child: “Realising the rights of the child affected by armed conflict.”
The negotiations on the future Crimes Against Humanity (CAH) Treaty represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ensure stronger protections for children in international law by considering explicitly the specific vulnerabilities and needs of children. With the deadline for Member States to submit proposed amendments to the UN Law Commission set for 30 April 2026, the window to act is narrowing fast. This is why War Child Alliance has been at the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and why we made sure children and young people were in the room and were able to directly pass their messages to Member States.
