+ Issue Date     : 24/02/1979
+ Classification : Postage Stamp
+ Emission       : Special
+ Designer       : Queen's Advertising
+ Printer        : Harrison & Sons, Limited
+ Printing       : Lithography
+ Perforations   : 14½ x 14
+ Separations    : Normal Perforations
+ Gum Type       : Gum
+ Shape          : Rectangular
+ Orientation    : Vertical

In December of 1976, the United Nations General Assembly 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.