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Gap in NZ educational achievement widens: Unicef

Edit Otago Daily Times 14 Apr 2016
 .  .  .  . The Unicef report "Fairness for Children" contained league tables of the gaps in income, education, health and quality of life in the 41 OECD countries ... Deborah Morris-Travers, Unicef's New Zealand advocacy manager, said the gap in educational achievement was a concern ... Ms Morris-Travers said childhood had a significant impact on the life that child would experience as an adult ... NZME. ....

UNICEF NZ marks Children’s Day 2016 with TEDx talk

Edit Scoop 05 Mar 2016
UNICEF NZ marks Children’s Day 2016 with TEDx talk in Wellington In a fitting tribute to mark Children’s Day 2016 (6 March), UNICEF New Zealand’s National Advocacy Manager, Deborah Morris-Travers, delivered a powerful presentation as part ... ....

What child poverty campaigners in the UK could learn from New Zealand

Edit The Guardian 08 Jul 2015
Meanwhile the Every Child Counts coalition of charities, spearheaded by Deborah Morris-Travers, previously an MP for the centrist New Zealand First party, has lobbied ministers and made much of the economic cost of not tackling child poverty ... Morris-Travers ahead of May’s budget ... Campaigner and former New Zealand First MP, Deborah Morris-Travers....

Make dazzling art from neon lights

Edit The Guardian 10 Jan 2015
It can be rather dangerous to master, but neon lighting has long been a favoured medium of artists such as Tracey Emin ... Photograph. Felix Clay ... However, it was two British scientists in the 1890s, William Ramsay and Morris Travers, who discovered the noble gases the signs depend on – which include neon, argon and helium. Travers described neon, when heated, as a “blaze of crimson light” that “was a sight to dwell upon and never forget” ... ....

Nothing cryptic about brickbats for crossword compilers

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Dec 2014
WORDPLAY. Cryptic comes from kryptos in Greek, or hidden ... In 1898, when Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers discovered a gas hiding within liquid air, krypton seemed the natural name. Cryptic crosswords belong to the same family ... Advertisement ....

Dad solicits prostitute in front of kids

Edit Stuff 22 Nov 2014
The sight of a man trying to pick up a prostitute in his BMW late at night with his two small children awake in the car has sparked outrage ... He had two small children in the car, one in the front passenger seat and a preschooler in the back ... She approached the car, but on seeing the children refused to get in ... Every Child Counts manager Deborah Morris-Travers said children grow up fast enough without being exposed to "adult activities"....

Key must walk the talk on child poverty

Edit Stuff 29 Oct 2014
OPINION. So you've just handed your major opponent a morale-sapping drubbing and your personal stocks are as high as ever. You can pass any law you want, but for a click of your fingers at your Epsom garcon ... If he is, it is a marked shift in emphasis ... Ad Feedback ... Unicef's advocacy manager Deborah Morris-Travers - herself a minister in the 1996 National-NZ First government - was blunt in pointing the way she thought Key should go ... ....

Child poverty in NZ not improving

Edit Otago Daily Times 28 Oct 2014
At the same time, Finland and Norway, states of a similar size to New Zealand, have reduced their child poverty rates by 4.30 and 3.20 per cent respectively," Deborah Morris-Travers, national advocacy manager for UNICEF New Zealand, said ... "Recent comments from the Prime Minister have acknowledged that children in New Zealand are missing out and that more must be done to address this," Ms Morris-Travers said....

Little progress in child poverty - Unicef report

Edit Stuff 28 Oct 2014
Progress on combating child poverty is stagnating, and government policy has barely made a dent in it, a United Nations report shows ... Unicef NZ national advocacy manager Deborah Morris-Travers said the report showed that growth in child poverty during a recession was not inevitable, and some countries had even reduced it ... Morris-Travers said the approach to tackling poverty had been piecemeal and marginal ... "I budget for it . ... ... - Stuff....

Political parties to be questioned on needs of children (University of Otago)

Edit noodls 04 Sep 2014
(Source. University of Otago). Wednesday, 3 September 2014 9.57am. Political party representatives will be asked to outline their policies in three key areas relating to the needs of children at a public forum being hosted this Friday by the University of Otago, Wellington (UOW). The event has been co-organised by UOW's departments of Paediatrics and Public Health, in collaboration with the Tick for Kids coalition ... Deborah Morris-Travers....

Young NZers call for parties to act on children's rights

Edit Scoop 14 Jul 2014
UNICEF NZ National Advocacy manager, Deborah Morris-Travers said, “When the young people started talking about the issues that matter to them there was a high level of consensus about priorities for action ... The delegates talked about the need for good quality mental health services and the need for professionals to be well trained to respond to trauma in children and youth,” Ms Morris-Travers added....

Child poverty drops: report

Edit Otago Daily Times 08 Jul 2014
Child poverty has dropped back almost to pre-recession levels, as New Zealanders' jobs and incomes finally climb out of a five-year downturn ... But Unicef advocacy manager Deborah Morris-Travers said poverty rates were still much higher for children (22 per cent) than for any other age group, measured by those below 60 per cent of 2007 median incomes in 2013 ... On the same basis, child poverty rates dropped for most ethnic groups ... APNZ. ....

Cunliffe sparks controversy

Edit Stuff 04 Jul 2014
‘‘Can I begin by saying I’m sorry – I don’t often say it – I’m sorry for being a man, right now ... Deborah Morris-Travers of children’s lobby group Every Child Counts agreed, saying the apology had created ‘‘a huge distraction’’ from the policy substance, including reform to help children testifying in court ... - Stuff. ....
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