Putting children’s rights and voices at the heart of decisions is central to our commitment to ensure no child is a part of war.
Children living through conflict face violence, displacement and disruption to their education, safety and wellbeing. Their voices are too often left out of decisions that affect them, the services they rely on are underfunded, and those who violate their rights too rarely face accountability.
Ukraine's youth are not waiting to be rescued; they are leading the way themselves.
We support children and young people affected by conflict to research the issues that matter to them, develop solutions, and influence decision-makers. Through our youth-led programme VoiceMore, we provide the tools young people need to lead their own advocacy. We train, fund and step back.
We campaign for governments and armed groups to uphold their obligations to protect children under international law. We work to ensure that children affected by conflict can access their rights, and that those responsible for violating them are held accountable.
We work to make sure children’s needs are reflected in the policies, funding and programmes that affect their lives. We push for sustained investment in education, child protection, and mental health and psychosocial support, to help children stay safe, learn and recover from conflict.
VoiceMore is War Child’s youth-led advocacy programme methodology, which supports young people to identify the challenges they and other children and youth face in the regions and country where they live, and to undertake advocacy action that brings about positive change within their communities and beyond.
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.
