Fighting for the rights of the world’s children

It is 40 years since I arrived as a student at Sussex University in the wake of the global student revolution of 1968, in the year of Woodstock and the moon landings.  The Cold War was at its height but the first SALT disarmament talks began in November.  In Vietnam it was the year of the secret bombing of Cambodia and the My Lai massacre, but also the first US troop withdrawals (and John Lennon returned his MBE in protest at the war). It was also the year of ARPANET, the progenitor of the internet. It was a time when young people believed in change and we thought anything was possible.  Some of us still believe it! Read more