CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eglantyne Jebb
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Slide 2: what is most significant contribution, engage audience to keep them following along, tell them what you"ll tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them. In uk, canada, usa: feared that children would become criminal, put them into schools to avoid that. Introduction of status offences a child cannot drink. Slide 7: eglantyne jebb, she founded save the children organization (1919, children were the deserving enemy she thought. 1924, league of nations, we wanted a declaration of childrens rights: she was a pioneer of introducing childrens rights. 1924 geneva declaration of the rights of the child: Recognizing that mankind owes to the child the best that it has to give. Child must be given the means requisite for its normal development, both materially and spiritually. Some believed come cultures in society were backward and needed extra assistance from state support to pull them up to our level.