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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 1d

‼️No child should pay the price of inaction.

Join us next week for the launch of “Child Poverty: The Cost Europe Cannot Afford” report, revealing new data from 16 countries & how the EU can lift 5M children from poverty.

➡️ Register here now info-hub.booking.europarl.europa.eu/events/child...

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 13d

👋 You're invited!

Join us, @eccjorg.bsky.social & @shareaction.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the Omnibus I package: how to simplify corporate rules without sacrificing human rights or the planet.

📅 30/09, 12–13 CEST
📍 Online webinar
👉 Register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6f0852...

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 20d

This moment demands decisive action.

The Government of Israel must be compelled to stop atrocity crimes.

Symbolic gestures & half-measures do not protect children, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 20d

❌Gaza’s schools have been obliterated
❌Over half of religious & cultural sites destroyed.
❌Since August we’ve run out of supplements for pregnant women & new mothers.

This is the predictable result of a sustained siege on food, medicine & fuel.

Humanitarian actors are blocked at every step.⬇️

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 20d

What we are witnessing on the ground is consistent with UN findings that a genocide is being committed in Gaza:

❌20,000+ children killed since Oct 2023
❌Many not only by bombs & bullets but deliberate starvation
❌21,000 left disabled
❌Gaza now has the world’s highest rate of child amputees ⬇️

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 21d

@savethechildrenes.bsky.social @savechildrende.bsky.social @savethechildren.nl @pelastakaalapset.bsky.social @redbarnet.dk

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 21d

"With EU member states now holding responsibility, the choice is clear: act or be complicit. History will judge this moment as a test of humanity — one we are collectively failing now." - Willy Bergogné, Save the Children Europe Director & EU representative

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 21d

The European Commission’s proposal announced today is long overdue, but it tragically falls short in addressing what the UN has recognised as genocide.

#Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable, and half-measures cannot reverse the engineered famine or the mass killing of children.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 21d

Today we propose to sanction extremist ministers and violent settlers, and suspend trade concessions with Israel.

And put bilateral support to Israel on hold, without affecting our work with Israeli civil society or Yad Vashem.

link.europa.eu/nx3DrG

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 22d

"What we're witnessing in Gaza is not only an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe but what the UN Commission of Inquiry has now concluded is a genocide. This moment demands decisive action.”

Statement of 20+ CEOs of aid agencies in Gaza 👇

www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-le...

GAZA: Leaders of major aid groups call on world leaders to intervene following UN genocide conclusion

The leaders of over 20 major aid groups in Gaza call for urgent intervention after a UN commission concluding, for the first time, that genocide is being committed.

www.savethechildren.net

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 27d

President VDL’s #SOTEU pledged new EU measures on Gaza. Promises must become action — too many come too late for children.
Save the Children Europe joins #LetChildrenLive. Every name is a child. Every child has the right to a future.
🔗 Take action: advocacy kit → bit.ly/4pofPka

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Parents & caregivers! 📣

The EU wants to hear from your 12–17-year-olds about cyberbullying. Their views will shape the new EU Action Plan.

Adults can also join the consultation & feed inputs into the Plan.

📑 Survey is open until 29 September 2025: eu-for-children.europa.eu/cyberbullyin...

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VOICE (Voluntary Organisations In Cooperation in Emergency) @voiceeu.bsky.social · 29d

On International Day to Protect Education from Attack, we reaffirm the crucial role of education – even in the hardest contexts. VOICE is proud of members like @planbelgium.bsky.social
@savechildreneu.bsky.social @hias.org, and many more, who keep learning alive in crises.

🟠 Education brings hope.

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yesterday in Brussels, Team Save Europe stood with +100k people to show EU leaders a red card.

We call for: definitive ceasefire, full humanitarian access, end to arms transfers, suspend the EU-Israel deal.

📽️ Watch, share, speak out — the EU must be held accountable NOW.

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 5

N.B. the video shared is dated December 2024.

Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EU must:
➡️Demand an end to the siege
➡️Ensure aid access
➡️Stop starvation as a weapon of war
Only political will can end this.

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today is the #InternationalDayOfCharity.
But in Gaza, charity isn’t reaching starving children — because of a near-total siege on aid.
We are no longer able to support starving families in Gaza.

This famine is engineered & preventable.
Children are paying the highest price.

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ali, 16, spent 196 days confined on #Samos — rarely leaving “safe area”, facing abuse & mental health collapse.

This reflects a wider European trend.

With @gcrefugees.bsky.social we urge EU & #Greece authorities to put children first 👉 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...

Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎒 Back to school, back to work—it’s time to put children at the top of Europe agenda!

In 2024 millions of children faced unparalleled challenges, but together with children, partners & institutions, we turned these challenges into real action.

📖 Read our 2024 European Activity Report: bit.ly/AAR24

Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Aug 27

“The Gaza Famine is here. Children are being starved to death.” Inger Ashing, @savechildrenintl.bsky.social CEO.

This crisis is manmade. The EU must act now: lift aid restrictions, allow UN access, suspend arms transfers, use its leverage. Every day costs lives.

savethechildren.net/news/save-ch...

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Aug 26

We call on European leaders to put children’s best interests first.

Policies that keep families apart are not only harmful—they undermine the values Europe claims to uphold.

Excellent reporting by @ashifakassam.bsky.social

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Aug 26

As our @federicatoscano.bsky.social explains in the piece: family reunification is one of the safest, most secure pathways for migration—supporting integration and reducing risks.

Restricting it fractures families and pushes people towards dangerous routes.

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Aug 26

“I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life.” These are not just words—they’re the reality for Ahmad Shikh Ali, separated from his child due to Europe's tightened reunification rules, with children paying the highest price.

Full article below
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life’: how Europe’s tougher rules are keeping families apart

Tighter family reunification laws are causing long separations, traumatising children, and can push people towards traffickers, campaigners say

www.theguardian.com

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Jul 31

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social
and EU Member States:

You promised action. But children in Gaza are still starving, still dying, still waiting.

This is not about capacity. It’s about political will.

The time to act is not later. It’s now.

#LetAidIn #Gaza

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Jul 31

Three weeks ago, the EU announced a deal with Israel to allow aid into Gaza “at scale.”

Since then:
No access.
No aid.
No change on the ground.
This isn’t a delay. It’s the continued denial of life-saving support for children.
#LetAidIn #Gaza

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Save the Children Europe @savechildreneu.bsky.social · Jul 25

“Hollow statements won't feed the children in Gaza who are starved to death before our eyes.”

We are calling on EU to use every means of leverage to hold the Government of Israel accountable.

“They have options, they just lack the political will to use them.”

www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

EU ‘too little, too late’ on Gaza, NGOs tell von der Leyen

Humanitarian groups are urging the EU to impose sanctions on Israel.

www.politico.eu

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