Save the Children Europe
@savechildreneu.bsky.social
We work in Brussels to ensure that European Union policies have a positive impact on children’s rights, across Europe and internationally 🇪🇺 🌍
https://www.savethechildren.net/what-we-do/advocacy/save-children-europe
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Every day, 244 children in Europe fall into poverty.
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we’re asking: why is this still happening — and what can the EU do to change it?
We know that child poverty isn’t inevitable — it’s a policy choice.
👇 Here’s how the EU can act.
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we’re asking: why is this still happening — and what can the EU do to change it?
We know that child poverty isn’t inevitable — it’s a policy choice.
👇 Here’s how the EU can act.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Every day, 244 children in Europe fall into poverty.
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we’re asking: why is this still happening — and what can the EU do to change it?
We know that child poverty isn’t inevitable — it’s a policy choice.
👇 Here’s how the EU can act.
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we’re asking: why is this still happening — and what can the EU do to change it?
We know that child poverty isn’t inevitable — it’s a policy choice.
👇 Here’s how the EU can act.
STATEMENT: Pause in hostilities a crucial relief for children in #Gaza – now it must become a definitive and lasting #ceasefire
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Pause in hostilities a crucial relief for children in Gaza – now it must become a definitive and lasting ceasefire
Reports of an impending pause in hostilities in Gaza signals a hopeful reprieve on the horizon for families and children, but must be a turning point to secure a definitive ceasefire, said Save the Ch...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
STATEMENT: Pause in hostilities a crucial relief for children in #Gaza – now it must become a definitive and lasting #ceasefire
savethechildren.net/news/pause-h...
savethechildren.net/news/pause-h...
‼️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...
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...
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‼️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...
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...
👋 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...
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...
September 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
👋 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...
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...
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 ⬇️
❌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 ⬇️
September 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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 ⬇️
❌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 ⬇️
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.
#Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable, and half-measures cannot reverse the engineered famine or the mass killing of children.
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
And put bilateral support to Israel on hold, without affecting our work with Israeli civil society or Yad Vashem.
link.europa.eu/nx3DrG
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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.
#Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable, and half-measures cannot reverse the engineered famine or the mass killing of children.
"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...
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
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"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...
Statement of 20+ CEOs of aid agencies in Gaza 👇
www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-le...
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
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
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
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
📣 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...
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...
September 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
📣 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...
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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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.
@savechildreneu.bsky.social @hias.org, and many more, who keep learning alive in crises.
🟠 Education brings hope.
September 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
@savechildreneu.bsky.social @hias.org, and many more, who keep learning alive in crises.
🟠 Education brings hope.
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.
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.
September 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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.
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.
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...
This reflects a wider European trend.
With @gcrefugees.bsky.social we urge EU & #Greece authorities to put children first 👉 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
This reflects a wider European trend.
With @gcrefugees.bsky.social we urge EU & #Greece authorities to put children first 👉 resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
🎒 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
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
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🎒 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
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
“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...
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...
August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“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...
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...
“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...
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
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“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...
Full article below
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
“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...
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
July 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“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...
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...
Today, as @europarl.europa.eu discusses EU #CorporateSustainability rules, we urge MEPs:
⚠️ Don’t let #Omnibus proposal weaken protections for children. Simplification must NOT come at the expense of #ChildRights.
📘 Learn how to protect them 👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
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⚠️ Don’t let #Omnibus proposal weaken protections for children. Simplification must NOT come at the expense of #ChildRights.
📘 Learn how to protect them 👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
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Children´s Rights in the Omnibus Simplification Package I: Future-proofing corporate sustainability - Policy Brief - Save the Children’s Resource Centre
The most comprehensive source of information on Child Rights
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net
July 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Today, as @europarl.europa.eu discusses EU #CorporateSustainability rules, we urge MEPs:
⚠️ Don’t let #Omnibus proposal weaken protections for children. Simplification must NOT come at the expense of #ChildRights.
📘 Learn how to protect them 👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
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⚠️ Don’t let #Omnibus proposal weaken protections for children. Simplification must NOT come at the expense of #ChildRights.
📘 Learn how to protect them 👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/chi...
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🚨 Greece has suspended asylum for arrivals from North Africa & plans to detain all new arrivals in Crete.
Save the Children warns: this decision violates EU and international law and puts children on the move at even greater risk. 🧵⬇️
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www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Save the Children warns: this decision violates EU and international law and puts children on the move at even greater risk. 🧵⬇️
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www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa
Greece will stop processing asylum applications of people coming from North Africa, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, amid a surge in migrant arrivals.
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨 Greece has suspended asylum for arrivals from North Africa & plans to detain all new arrivals in Crete.
Save the Children warns: this decision violates EU and international law and puts children on the move at even greater risk. 🧵⬇️
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www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Save the Children warns: this decision violates EU and international law and puts children on the move at even greater risk. 🧵⬇️
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www.reuters.com/world/africa...
💡What’s the EU’s smartest move forward? Invest in children everywhere.
Kids make up half the population in many partner countries — but get only a small share of EU aid.
With the next #MFF on the horizon, our new paper shows why that must change👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the...
Kids make up half the population in many partner countries — but get only a small share of EU aid.
With the next #MFF on the horizon, our new paper shows why that must change👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the...
June 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
💡What’s the EU’s smartest move forward? Invest in children everywhere.
Kids make up half the population in many partner countries — but get only a small share of EU aid.
With the next #MFF on the horizon, our new paper shows why that must change👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the...
Kids make up half the population in many partner countries — but get only a small share of EU aid.
With the next #MFF on the horizon, our new paper shows why that must change👇
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/the...
As Europe prepares its next #MFF, the EU could become a global leader in health & solidarity — without spending a euro more.
Pooling national aid budgets or boosting instruments like NDICI/ECHO could become a game-changer. The question is: do EU leaders see it too?
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
Pooling national aid budgets or boosting instruments like NDICI/ECHO could become a game-changer. The question is: do EU leaders see it too?
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
Opinion: The EU is an aid superpower. It just doesn’t know it yet
U.S. aid cuts and withdrawal from WHO are a terrible blow for global health, but also an opportunity for the European Union to step up as a superpower: Together, EU member states spend nearly twice as...
www.devex.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As Europe prepares its next #MFF, the EU could become a global leader in health & solidarity — without spending a euro more.
Pooling national aid budgets or boosting instruments like NDICI/ECHO could become a game-changer. The question is: do EU leaders see it too?
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
Pooling national aid budgets or boosting instruments like NDICI/ECHO could become a game-changer. The question is: do EU leaders see it too?
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
As the #GaviSummit starts in Brussels today, @savechildrenintl.bsky.social CEO Inger Ashing calls on world leaders and governments, including the EU, to fully fund @gavi.org — a partnership ensuring every child, everywhere, can survive and thrive.
June 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
As the #GaviSummit starts in Brussels today, @savechildrenintl.bsky.social CEO Inger Ashing calls on world leaders and governments, including the EU, to fully fund @gavi.org — a partnership ensuring every child, everywhere, can survive and thrive.
Tomorrow at @gavi.org Pledging Summit in Brussels, Save the Children joins 150+ organisations worldwide calling for urgent funding.
Vaccines protect everyone. Funding Gavi is one of the smartest choices leaders can make.
🎥 Hear why from @savechildrende.bsky.social CEO Florian Westphal #GaviSummit
Vaccines protect everyone. Funding Gavi is one of the smartest choices leaders can make.
🎥 Hear why from @savechildrende.bsky.social CEO Florian Westphal #GaviSummit
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tomorrow at @gavi.org Pledging Summit in Brussels, Save the Children joins 150+ organisations worldwide calling for urgent funding.
Vaccines protect everyone. Funding Gavi is one of the smartest choices leaders can make.
🎥 Hear why from @savechildrende.bsky.social CEO Florian Westphal #GaviSummit
Vaccines protect everyone. Funding Gavi is one of the smartest choices leaders can make.
🎥 Hear why from @savechildrende.bsky.social CEO Florian Westphal #GaviSummit
Protect children, protect Europe – fund the fight against child poverty ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊
The EU Alliance for #InvestinginChildren is urging @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to make ending child poverty a core priority in the next #EUbudget.
The EU Alliance for #InvestinginChildren is urging @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to make ending child poverty a core priority in the next #EUbudget.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Protect children, protect Europe – fund the fight against child poverty ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊
The EU Alliance for #InvestinginChildren is urging @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to make ending child poverty a core priority in the next #EUbudget.
The EU Alliance for #InvestinginChildren is urging @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to make ending child poverty a core priority in the next #EUbudget.