The International Day for Protection of Children is observed in many countries as Children's Day on 1 June since 1950. It was established by the Women's International Democratic Federation on its congress in Moscow (4 November 1949). Major global variants include a Universal Children's Holiday on 20 November, by United Nations recommendation.  Read more..

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The Post of Moldova has already celebrated several times in the past this International Children's Day, especially through series of stamps reproducing children's drawings (in 2001, 2009 or 2015). In 1989, the United Nations established an International Day of the Rights of the Child, which is celebrated every year on November 20, but in most of Eastern Europe countries (including the former USSR republics), an International Children's Day is established each June 1st (that day coinciding with the start of the school holidays). On 1 June 2017, the Post of Moldova this time put into circulation an interesting prepaid envelope dedicated to this International Children's Day ("Ziua Internaţională a Copilului" in Romanian). Read more..