Welcome to the website of Elizabeth Willmott Harrop, a UK-based communications professional, writer, researcher and trainer specialising in international human rights and the humanitarian aid sector.
I have experience of a wide range of issues including corporate social responsibility, human rights advocacy, environment, development, education, campaigning and fundraising.
I offer the following services, please contact me if I can help your organisation:
- Public Relations Consultant and Project Manager. From adhoc project support, such as media relations, website production and event management, to full project management of public awareness campaigns.
- Writer. From copywriting and media information, to research reports and independent journalism. Read Elizabeth's published articles on subjects including the sexualisation of children, the media's role in war propaganda, and trafficking of women and girls into the Thai sex industry.
- Creative. A quick and original mind for creative brainstorming and project ideas.
- Media Trainer. For organisation spokespeople and those wanting a basic grounding in dealing with the media.
- Facilitator. Workshop facilitator and conference speaker.
- Spokesperson. Experienced press, radio and TV spokesperson.
- Researcher. Thorough and proficient researcher on a range of topics from social issues to new business development.
The Online Resources section contains Elizabeth's self-published writing on social justice issues, including:
- Iraq: Propaganda's War on Human Rights discusses the illegality of propaganda, under international human rights law, used by the UK and USA in the ongoing Iraq conflict.
- Human Writes has a range of articles on human rights themes, from the universal declaration of human rights' bias towards western democracies, to the evolution of the international criminal court and Māori and human rights in New Zealand.
- Elizabeth's Blog discusses social justice, the politics of gender and parenting, and the rights of women and children, from sexism in economics to the cultural clash between boobs and breastfeeding.
- Childbirth, Parenting and Human Rights gives an overview of human rights instruments supporting motherhood and discusses some contentious parenting issues, from extended breastfeeding to the crisis of medicalised childbirth.
"Elizabeth's pace of ideas, imagination and productive work far surpasses that of any colleague I have worked with and she allows nothing to jade her drive, zest and extraordinary energy."
Ramu Damodaran, Chief, Civil Society Service, United Nations New York
Please join my LinkedIn group Stop the Sexualisation of Children. Uniting people internationally, who want to prevent the sexualisation of children.
Picture shows 10-year-old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau from a Tom Ford-edited issue of French Vogue