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On Monday a significant international conference on women’s and children’s health, co-hosted by the Government of South Africa, will begin in Johannesburg.

With a child population of nearly 60 million children, Brazil has become the largest country in the world to achieve prohibition of all corporal punishment, including in the home.

You can tell a lot about a country from the way it treats its women and young children. If a country really believes in equality then it will invest in their health, safety, education and empowerment. 

Special Reception Hosted by South African Civil Society: A Common Thread Reaching Every Woman and Every Newborn.

It has been 38 years since the Soweto uprising where protesting students were shot dead by Apartheid police for protesting Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.

The abduction of over 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno, North West Nigeria in mid-April has sparked outrage from the global public and cast a spotlight on the situation in the north of the country. 

An Advocacy and Campaigning Meeting on Maternal Newborn and Child Health for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) took place in South Africa on 13th May 2014, hosted by Save the Children South Africa.

This Mother’s Day spare a thought for the mothers of the 20 babies that die every day in South Africa on the day they are born.

Save the Children remains appalled by the abduction of the schoolgirls in Nigeria. As a children's rights organisation we believe every boy or girl has the right to be educated and to be protected against all forms of violence.