Feb 14, 2013 07:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) A group of children and child rights advocates in the Philippines campaigning for a “children-centered” election on Valentine’s day urge voters to have a heart and think of the future of their children, younger siblings, nieces and nephews as they choose their candidates in the coming elections.
Jan 14, 2013 08:44 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Save the Children’s new report 'Ending Poverty in Our Generation' outlines an ambitious new development framework which, it says, can help all countries end extreme poverty in the next 20 years. This is the first time that an organisation proposes specific new targets to replace the MDGs.
Nov 20, 2012 07:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) International organizations Save the Children and World Vision are calling on the National Government to strengthen its commitment to reduce cases of child undernutrition in the Philippines, a hidden crisis that is accountable for more than a third of all child deaths worldwide—around 2.3 million in 2011.
Nov 05, 2012 07:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Thirty health and human rights experts and leaders from five Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines will gather here on November 5-6 to identify key challenges and opportunities for improving the implementation and accountability of the child’s right to health in the region.
Oct 16, 2012 08:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) More than 20,000 children across 42 countries will take part in Save the Children’s Race for Survival, a global relay race to raise awareness on the urgent need to tackle child malnutrition. Children will run on October 16th, coinciding with World Food Day, to bring attention to this underlying cause of a third of all child deaths, with 2.3 million dying in 2011 alone.
Oct 14, 2012 06:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Save the Children this week advised incumbent lawmakers and aspiring candidates in the upcoming congressional elections in May 2013 "not to tamper with provisions in the Milk Code which promote breastfeeding over milk substitutes.”
Oct 10, 2012 10:14 SGT Save the Children (Asia) International children’s organization Save the Children challenges candidates who filed their certificates before the electoral commission to address the global issue on children’s survival in an effort to decrease the number of preventable deaths of children and to ensure national development.
Oct 06, 2012 06:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Filipino actor-producer Dingdong Dantes will run in the world’s biggest children’s race on October 16, World Food Day, at the Yńares Center, Rizal Capitol Compound, Antipolo City if only to urge governments and world leaders to decisively address child malnutrition and ensure protection of child rights in times of emergencies and disasters.
Sep 27, 2012 06:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) Sapang Kawayan is one of the villages in Pampanga, Philippines severely affected by the Tropical Storm Haikui-triggered flooding, with reports of as much as 5-feet-deep floodwaters during the peak of the incessant rains. However, to date, the local officials said that the only help they have received is a ration of non-food items from the local government one week after the flooding.
Sep 21, 2012 10:00 SGT Save the Children (Asia) The two organisations launched a new Nutrition Barometer which assesses governments’ political, legal and financial commitments to tackling malnutrition in the 36 countries where 90% of the world’s undernourished children live. Four of the five South East Asian countries included in the report – Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Philippines – are showing progress in fighting child undernutrition.