The Convention on the Rights of the Child is not set in stone. As I write, it is twenty-eight years old and there have been many changes in the world. A generation ago we were pulling down walls; today we are about to rebuild them. In the twenty-eight years since the CRC, development has gone from being a goal of the Global South to a contributor to global warming and climate change. China has shown us it is possible to combine Communism and capitalism, but not, it seems, to recognise human rights at the same time. The rich have got richer (the so-called 1 per cent, Dorling, 2013), and the poor poorer. The refugee crisis is set to reconfigure Europe, as parts of the Global South self-destruct. The seeds of colonialism no longer bear fruit but return to haunt old colonial powers. The world seems to be peopled by bigots and isolationists in ways that were not predictable in 1989. Religion both threatens world order yet remains in terminal decline.