We use all our skills to combine lobbying, policy, research, campaigning and media into one agile, powerful engine for change. Operating as part of a movement that works in 120 countries, our department designs and implements change-making strategies. A right that our founder helped establish. We work relentlessly to defend children against the horrors of war and to uphold their right to be protected. But war is putting children at risk as never before. We’re pushing for governments around the world to make sure that children caught up in conflict are protected. Meanwhile an increasingly unstable climate is driving up risks caused by weather-related disasters. The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to push millions of children into acute food insecurity and other deprivations including reduced access to education and diminishing gender equality. The numbers of children living in areas affected by conflict and the numbers of displaced children remain at historic highs. Humanitarian needs of children are expected to reach new records in 2021. Food and sexual violence are used as weapons of war. Schools, hospitals and other places where children should be safe are targeted in horrific attacks. From Syria to Yemen, boys and girls are being killed and maimed as their hometowns are bombed and placed under violent siege.
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