Malawi Philately: 1979 International Year of the Child

UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on 1 January 1979, by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the proclamation was intended to draw attention to problems that affected children throughout the world, including malnutrition and lack of access to education.

Many of these efforts resulted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

Details

• Date of Issue: 10 July 1979
• Date Withdrawn: 
• Date Invalidated: 
• Designer: BG Studio
• Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Limited (The House of Questa)
• Process: Lithography
• Paper: 
• Watermark: Cockerels (sideways)
• Perf: 13.5 (comb)
• Cylinders: 
  • 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
  • 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B
  • 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C
  • 1D 1D 1D 1D 1D
• Sheet: 
• Quantity:

Subjects

• 5t – Malawi Boy
• 10t – Malawi Boy
• 20t – Malawi Girl
• 40t – Malawi Children

First Day Covers (official)

First Day Covers (Unofficial)

Danish Red Cross Memorial Sheet No.8

In the international Year of the Child, the Danish Red Cross started a collaboration with the Malawi Red Cross on the establishment and operation of a number of mother/child clinics in Malawi.

References

• Wikipedia: International Year of the Child

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