Child rights work
The Save the Children Fund has been closely connected with campaigning for children’s rights throughout its history. Eglantyne Jebb, one of the charity's founders, drafted the Children’s Charter in 1923 based around five key principles. These formed the basis of the League of Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of the Child published in 1924, itself the forerunner of the UN Convention. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, containing 54 articles, was adopted in 1989 and ratified by the UK Government in 1991.
Since the 1990s, many of the Fund's programmes have directly worked to promote child rights, and to enable children to use their own voices.
Image: This poster from 1995 includes an image drawn by a child refugee, with a statement of their experience in their own words. Finding number: SCF/FR/10/4/ONE
Child rights work
The Save the Children Fund has been closely connected with campaigning for children’s rights throughout its history. Eglantyne Jebb, one of the charity's founders, drafted the Children’s Charter in 1923 based around five key principles. These formed the basis of the League of Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of the Child published in 1924, itself the forerunner of the UN Convention. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, containing 54 articles, was adopted in 1989 and ratified by the UK Government in 1991.
Since the 1990s, many of the Fund's programmes have directly worked to promote child rights, and to enable children to use their own voices.
Image: This poster from 1995 includes an image drawn by a child refugee, with a statement of their experience in their own words. Finding number: SCF/FR/10/4/ONE