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
One of Us (ABBA song) Here We Go Again Tour she went into empty arena and sang "One of Us", claiming that it was "not ready...but it was pretty good" and that she was "working on it". One of Us (ABBA song) "One of Us" ("En av oss" in Swedish) is the first single from Swedish pop group ABBA's final studio album "The Visitors", their eighth for Polar, and their seventh for Epic and Atlantic. It was released in December 1981. The song is also included on the compilation albums "" and "Number Ones". "One of Us"—which had the working titles "Number 1" and "Mio