Fighting for the rights of the world’s children
September 1, 2009 by David Bull · Leave a Comment
INDIA: Children gather for a distribution of supplies in the flood-affected village of Raban Toli, in Darbhanga District in the state of Bihar. (Photo: UNICEF/ HQ07-1260/Tom Pietrasik)
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
Who’s the real baby?
February 23, 2009 by Judith Flacks · Leave a Comment
Tabloid papers always manage to be a bit contentious. People who don’t read them generally hate them for the irrelevant and seedy news they put out, and people who do read them often love them for exactly the same reason. So when The Sun came out with the story about the 13 year old father who, as they put it, “looks more like he’s 8”, it regenerated many discussions about teenage pregnancy and youth culture.
