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Business leaders from Latin America gather in Mexico to reaffirm…

The Regional Philanthropy Council is Plan International's new strategic commitment to strengthen support and fundraising aimed at empowering the opportunities and rights of girls and adolescents.…

Spike in Violence Feared for Children in Haiti as International…

Humanitarian organizations warn of increasing violence against children in Haiti in the face of the deployment of international forces, calling for urgent measures to protect the country's children…

Haiti violence heightens children’s emotional stress

International support is required to support children’s mental health as violence in Haiti takes an increasingly heavy toll.

Gang violence in Haiti puts girls at risk

Haiti’s gang crisis is placing girls at risk of hunger, gender-based violence and recruitment by armed gangs, according to a new study.

Statement: Navigating the unprecedented migration crisis in…

An urgent call for international protection and humanitarian assistance in the region.

Refugee and migrant girls need protection in Mexico

Girls, adolescents and their families are disproportionately affected in this crisis, facing multiple dangers and untold suffering, often in their home countries and also during their journey,…

Education remains a challenge for Venezuelan migrant and refugee…

In the case of migrant and refugee girls and adolescent girls, the gender-based violence to which they are exposed also has a detrimental effect on their education, forcing them to drop out…

On world menstrual health day, worsening humanitarian crisis…

For 13-year-old Sofiana, who lives in Hait’s South East department, the hunger crisis has meant that managing her period has become increasingly tough. "I sometimes find it difficult to buy…

Thousands of children affected by rains and floods in Peru …

Torrential rains and flooding across the country have left more than 517,000 people in need of humanitarian assistance

Lack of money affects 65% of farming families in Haiti according…

Plan International warns that the lack of agricultural production exacerbates the food crisis for families.

Hunger crisis: Concern deepens for women and girls in Haiti

Haiti is one of the hungriest countries on earth and women and girls are bearing the brunt of it says Plan International.

Plan International Responding to the hunger crisis in Haiti

40 families living in the southeastern department of Haiti were the first beneficiaries of the cash transfer