@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
✅ Strengthen the European Social Fund with dedicated resources for children
✅ Fully implement the Child Guarantee
✅ Invest in education, healthcare, housing & social protection
Child poverty is the cost Europe cannot afford.
Learn more in our brand new report ➡️ bit.ly/Child-Povert...
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.
Thank you for the shout-out, we are looking forward to having you with us tomorrow 💜🧡💙
13.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Child wearing a pink jacket sitting on a tree stump in a park, back facing the camera, with a colorful backpack on the grass beside them. Red panel on the right shows Save the Children logo and text: ‘Child Poverty: The Cost Europe Can’t Afford. Report launch 14 October 2025, 15:00–17:00, hosted by Victor Negrescu, Vice-President of the European Parliament.’
‼️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...
👋 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
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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
❌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.⬇️
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 ⬇️
@savethechildrenes.bsky.social @savechildrende.bsky.social @savethechildren.nl @pelastakaalapset.bsky.social @redbarnet.dk
17.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"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
17.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
"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...
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
📣 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...
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.
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.
N.B. the video shared is dated December 2024.
05.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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.
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...
🎒 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
“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...
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
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.
“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...
@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
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
“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...
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