Issues we focus on
Millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We're working flat out to fix it.
We're outraged that 10 million children under the age of five die every year, mostly from preventable illnesses.
A huge amount is known about how to save children's lives. We provide direct help when and where it matters. Learn more about our biggest-ever campaign and read our report Saving Children's Lives.
By combining our work with children all over the world with research and policy expertise, we influence the people who make decisions that affect children every day.
Our hunger, health, education and protection work aims to come up with long-lasting solutions to these ongoing problems affecting the poorest children. Our work on rights and economic justice looks to research and explain the underlying reasons for the hardship so many children suffer.
Here are some of the issues we're working on right now:
Global food crisis
The global food crisis is affecting the lives of the poorest children all over the world. We're stepping up our response. Read our briefing on this issue.
Sexual exploitation
Our report on the sexual exploitation of children by aid workers was reported in the media all over the world. To find out more download the report here.
Child labour
An estimated 8.4 million children are trapped in the worst forms of child labour. Read this feature article.
Education
Millions of children will never see the inside of a classroom. Learn about our education programmes.
Here's some of our latest policy work:
- We explain the relationship between poverty and food intake and make recommends in the July issue of ID21 Insights (PDF 370KB).
- We recently made a submission to the International Development Select Committee on the Department for International Development's (DFID) aid impact monitoring - specifically of poverty reduction programmes - and DFID's approach to agriculture. Read our submission (PDF 135KB) to the DFID Annual Report 2008.
- In May 2008 we launched our report, 'No one left to turn to: the under-reporting of child sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers'. Read what we've written about the report.
