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New global research involving over 10,000 children and young people from 10 countries has found that gender profoundly influences how conflict is experienced. The study, by child rights and humanitarian INGO Plan International, offers in-depth insight into growing up in conflict, based on a survey and first-person accounts of 15- to 24-year-olds from countries including Sudan, Palestine, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Ukraine.

More than 300 people in northern Vietnam have been reported dead or missing in the wake of Typhoon Yagi – the most severe storm to have hit Southeast Asia this year and the worst to have struck Vietnam in 30 years. Child’s rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International has deployed teams to assess the extent of damage and immediate needs of families in areas hardest hit by the disaster.

Girls rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International Australia condemns and is appalled by the new “vice and virtue” laws introduced by the Taliban this week, which have barred women from speaking, singing, reciting words aloud or showing their faces in public.

Severe flooding triggered by monsoon rains in Bangladesh has left millions of children in need of humanitarian assistance. Plan International Bangladesh’s Emergency Response Team, volunteers and local partner organisations have been deployed to impacted communities.

Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about 640,000 children aged under 10 following confirmation of the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years.

Nearly 500 days since the conflict in Sudan began and this latest attack on schools in North Kordofan has once again taken children’s lives and blown away any dreams of children ever returning to the classroom.

The UN-backed IPC’s latest famine review on Sudan, has found that conflict has pushed parts of North Darfur – notably the Zamzam camp near El Fasher town into famine conditions.

Leading organisation for girls’ rights, Plan International Australia, is today launching a new program offering young people a chance to learn more about making change for gender justice. Open to young people of any gender aged 15-26, the Youth Impact Academy is an online, completely free program aimed at building leadership, advocacy, and campaigning skills for young people in their fight against inequality and gender equality.