International Year of the Child International Year of the Child 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. Numerous events took place within the UN and in member countries to mark the event, including the Music for
SOS (ABBA song) by director Lasse Hallström for the band. Much of the video is filmed from an overhead camera, as if from a tower or lighthouse, with the bandmates' faces sometimes distorted, as though shot through a prism. During the band's first visit to the United States, ABBA performed "SOS" on the long-running television program "American Bandstand" on 15 November 1975. ABBA performs the song live in the concert film "", Hallström's first English-language feature film, filmed during the band's tour of Australia in 1977. ABBA performed the song on its 1979 tour of Europe and North America. While the track does