BURMA

BURMA / ဘားမာ (now MYANMAR). 

International Year of the Child.
Stylized map of Burma with IYC emblem.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 01.12.1979.
Face value: 50 Burman pya.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 275.
- Scott No. 274.
- StampWorld No. 275.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 285.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 185B.

UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 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.