The report highlights the integration of Syrian refugee children into public schools in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I). By January 2024, over 70% of Syrian refugee children were enrolled in these schools, benefiting both refugee and...
Save the Children MENAEE (Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe) is dedicated to improving the lives of children across a region marked by significant humanitarian and development challenges. With a presence in 16 countries in the MENAEE...
“Talking helps reduce pressure” is a follow-on to a joint research endeavor between Save the Children Denmark and Tufts University FIC’s research program Early Marriage Among Female Youth in Displacement. The new study builds on the findings from...
The Yazidis are a minority group of Kurdistan that have long been persecuted for their religious practices and forced to convert to Islam. On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) brutally attacked the Yazidi community living...
This briefing paper examines the experiences of life after marriage for female youth who married under the age of 18 in South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. This paper outlines the wide range of personal experiences following early...
This briefing paper focuses on the decision-making processes that led displaced female youth to marry as minors in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and South Sudan, based on the actual stories of study participants. Reasons for early marriage are...
Save the Children commissioned this report to help provide a better understanding of how Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq regard their future, their decision-making processes, and priorities in terms of durable solutions. Eleven years...
Legal and policy measures that prevent and prohibit child marriage are a key approach to protecting girls from being married before they are ready. To better understand how child marriage laws protect girls affected by crisis in the Middle...
In 2017 Save the Children conducted a participatory study with 571 adolescent girls and boys, caregivers and community members in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. We wanted to hear directly from adolescents how conflict affects their lives, what...
This position paper starts with an outline of the international community’s growing concern over the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and then looks at the devastating impact that this has had on children and their families in...