Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928, co-founder of Save the Children Fund, (SCF/PP1423), Cadbury Research Library
Oxford-educated Eglantyne Jebb was inspired by a burning need to be of some service to society. She first taught, then turned to studying social questions and later undertook relief work in Macedonia during World War I. In 1919, with her sister, Dorothy Buxton, she raised £1,000 to alleviate the post-war suffering of children in Austria. That fund, first working under the aegis of the Fight the Famine Council, became the Save The Children Fund. Eglantyne Jebb drafted a ‘Children's Charter: a declaration of the Rights of Childhood' in 1922. She acted as the honorary secretary of Save The Children in the 1920s and was also vice-president of the Save The Children International Union of Geneva; and acted as member of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Child Protection. Her Children’s Charter, drafted in 1922, was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and as the ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child’ was adopted in an extended form by the United Nations in 1959. In 1989 as the ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’ it was adopted into international law by the United Nations General Assembly.
Text by Anne George, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
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Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928, co-founder of Save the Children Fund, (SCF/PP1423), Cadbury Research Library
Oxford-educated Eglantyne Jebb was inspired by a burning need to be of some service to society. She first taught, then turned to studying social questions and later undertook relief work in Macedonia during World War I. In 1919, with her sister, Dorothy Buxton, she raised £1,000 to alleviate the post-war suffering of children in Austria. That fund, first working under the aegis of the Fight the Famine Council, became the Save The Children Fund. Eglantyne Jebb drafted a ‘Children's Charter: a declaration of the Rights of Childhood' in 1922. She acted as the honorary secretary of Save The Children in the 1920s and was also vice-president of the Save The Children International Union of Geneva; and acted as member of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Child Protection. Her Children’s Charter, drafted in 1922, was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and as the ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child’ was adopted in an extended form by the United Nations in 1959. In 1989 as the ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’ it was adopted into international law by the United Nations General Assembly.
Text by Anne George, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&...
SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library