Press Release – Eglantyne The Show
EGLANTYNE is an inspiring solo play about Eglantyne Jebb, the visionary, passionate, human rights pioneer, humanitarian, social reformer and founder of Save the Children.Eglantyne is one of the most influential women of the 20th century, yet one of the least known. Created and launched in New Zealand
EGLANTYNE has toured extensively including London, RSC’s The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Brighton, Geneva, Zurich, Beirut, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, Malawi, Mozambique, Melbourne and Adelaide.
EGLANTYNE is coming to Auckland’s Q Theatre, on 10-13 February, as part of the Summer at Q Festival, supported by the University of Auckland.
Press Release – Eglantyne The Show EGLANTYNE is an inspiring solo play about Eglantyne Jebb, the visionary, passionate, human rights pioneer, humanitarian, social reformer and founder of Save the Children. Eglantyne is one of the most influential women of the 20th century, yet one of the …
EGLANTYNE is an inspiring solo play about Eglantyne Jebb, the visionary, passionate, human rights pioneer, humanitarian, social reformer and founder of Save the Children. Eglantyne is one of the most influential women of the 20th century, yet one of the least known. Created and launched in New Zealand
EGLANTYNE has toured extensively including London, RSC’s The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Brighton, Geneva, Zurich, Beirut, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, Malawi, Mozambique, Melbourne and Adelaide.
The impact of explosive violence on child nutrition
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By Verity Hubbard
Between 2014 and 2017, the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor found itself a place under siege. For three long years, Deir ez-Zor was shelled, starved and systematically destroyed. Food was already fast becoming scarce, but when ISIS fired rockets at Deir ez-Zor s airport, they severed the air bridge supplying the city with food. Hunger followed. Civilians later reported that they were forced to eat the edible leaves found in the surrounding area .
The Deir ez-Zor siege starkly demonstrates the interrelationship between conflict and hunger in the modern age, and how food is today still used as a weapon of war.
Rays of hope for 2021
This time last year we were getting the first reports of a new deadly respiratory infection in Wuhan, China. As we mark the end of 2020 it is hard to look beyond the suffering, disruption, and economic dislocation triggered by Covid-19. The world before lockdowns and endless hours of Zoom meetings feels like another age. But it is now critical that we learn the lessons of the last year, look at the evidence, and work together to make 2021 a year of recovery.
Covid-19 has been a very visible public health crisis for adults but some of the deepest scars will be carried by children. The early warning signs are clearly visible. Child poverty is rising, along with malnutrition. Recent modelling work points to a potential surge in child mortality as major diseases like malaria and pneumonia go untreated. With 500 million children still out of school, and many more returning to under-funded education systems, the pandemic has created perfect storm conditions for an
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF OPAC
2020 marks 20 years since the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). Ratified by 170 States, OPAC is an indispensable complement to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). To celebrate this milestone, the Center for Children’s Rights Studies and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child planned a commemorative conference in Geneva on September 29, 2020. Regrettably this was cancelled due to the pandemic related public health situation. This led us to ask several of the distinguished speakers to record brief statements instead and to post them on this dedicated website.