End violence against children

Ethiopia

Preventing child marriage through active participation of children and young people

November 27 2023 - Ethiopia has some of the highest rates of child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM), with 4 in 10 girls getting married before turning 18. Child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) had been on decline for some time, but complex humanitarian crises - conflicts, droughts and displacement - have exacerbated gender-based violence in recent years again.

Joint Statement

Protecting children in the occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

October 23 2023 - This war on children must stop. Anything less will forever be a stain on our collective conscience. 20 organisations are urging the EU to call for the respect of international humanitarian law and an immediate ceasefire by all parties as the number of children being killed continues to rise. Children are always the first to suffer in any conflict – the stories coming out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory are truly harrowing. Children are paying the highest price for a conflict they have no part in.

Statement

Call to end the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza

October 17 2023 - SOS Children's Villages is appalled as a preventable, humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Gaza, while the world watches. SOS Children’s Villages mourns the killing of several children, young people and families from our programmes in Israel and Palestine whose lives were cut short. As the death toll climbs, more and more children are tragically losing their parents and loved ones, if not their own lives. In a matter of days, thousands of children have been killed and injured in Gaza and Israel, and the numbers grow by the day.