Annual Review / Annual Accounts 2025
Our Annual Review and Annual Accounts for the year 2025 are now available. Read Online Printer-friendly download A copy of the full Annual Accounts is available on request.
Working Together So That Nobody Faces a Crisis Alone
Every minute, every day, somewhere in the world, someone reaches out for help. Sometimes it is an adult experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crisis. Sometimes it is a child seeking safety, support or simply someone who will listen. Different helplines answer those calls. Different organizations support those services. But behind them lies a shared belief: […]
Beyond the Call: Nine Years of Advocacy for Children in Pakistan
Every day, child helplines hear the stories behind the statistics. They hear from children who have disappeared from home, who have been trafficked or exploited, who are forced to work or beg, or who find themselves living on the streets without protection or support. They hear from families desperately searching for missing children. They witness […]
Helping Shape Africa’s Future for Child Protection
How can Africa build even stronger systems to protect children – both online and offline? That question brought together governments, children’s rights organizations, technical experts and young people themselves at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 16–17 July 2026, for the ARISE Africa II Validation Meeting. Representing Child Helpline International was African […]
Child helplines urge Irish EU Presidency to secure the future of Europe’s Safer Internet Centres
AMSTERDAM – Child Helpline International (CHI), INHOPE and Insafe, together with 26 organizations from 19 EU Member States and two neighbouring countries, are calling on the Irish Presidency and all EU institutions to help secure the future of Europe’s Safer Internet Centres. For more than two decades, Safer Internet Centres have been an integral part […]
La Strada-Ukraine: Professionalism, Resilience and Extraordinary Commitment
In recent days, Kyiv has endured devastating missile and drone attacks, with lives lost, many people injured, and homes and buildings across the city damaged. Among those affected is our member, La Strada-Ukraine. During an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on 1-2 July, the blast wave from a nearby strike damaged La […]
Joint Statement on potential age restrictions for children to access social media
Child rights organizations and experts unite to call on the EU to steer away from social media bans
BRUSSELS – Ahead of the third meeting of the Special Panel advising President Ursula Von Der Leyen on a potential social media ban in the EU, more than 170 child rights organizations and experts across Europe have joined forces to call for a more nuanced and rights-based approach. Since last year, and inspired in part […]
Safer Digital Environments for Children: Waiting is Not an Option
On 23 June 2026, policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, academics and child rights experts gathered at the OECD High-Level Roundtable on Regulatory Co-operation for Safer Childhoods Online in Paris. Organized by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation in partnership with France’s data protection authority (CNIL) under the auspices of the G7, the event focused […]
The Livingstone Declaration – One Year On
It’s exactly one year ago that the 11th International Consultation of Child Helplines, held in Livingstone, Zambia, concluded with the signing of “The Livingstone Declaration”. Building upon commitments, pledges and undertakings outlined in previous International and Regional Consultations, it was a statement by our child helpline members of their commitments towards strengthening and expanding child […]
Every Child Deserves Not Only Protection, But Someone to Turn To
Statement from Helen Mason, Executive Director
The recent remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell to the United Nations Security Council are a timely and powerful reminder of the devastating toll that armed conflict continues to take on children around the world. Children do not start wars. Yet they too often suffer their greatest consequences. Whether in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, […]