COVER N.138 - CHILE.

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Posted on the 17th June; received on the 13th July 2022
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The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was first adopted by the League of Nations in 1924. In it, the ex-belligerent countries, in the wake of a war (that sadly would lead to another...) which brought unparalleled destruction and hardship, acknowledging that children are the most vulnerable of us all, but also those that will ensure the progress and future of mankind, postulated five simple  statements that, if abided to by all nations  would ensure  the protection and welfare of children across the planet.

The principles acknowledged in the Declaration (which would also be improved upon in the course of the years) would be later on  detailed by  the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1989.

This Convention sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. and came into force after ratification by the required number of UN member countries in 1990.

Although child abuse in all sorts of ways and matters is still one of the worst civilisational nightmares our species has to contend with, the ever greater scrutiny of international organisations, institutions and legislative bodies has ensured actual progress, even though regression is always at the corner of a new war, socio-economic or/and ideo-political crisis.

Chile ratified the  International Convention on the Rights of the Child on  13 August 1990. 

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ratification, the postal administration of Chile issued on 13SEP2017 a stamp emission comprising a two 500 Peso stamp se-tenant pair and a souvenir sheet with a 1,500 Pesos stamp, the one that graces the nice cover I received  on my letterbox. 

The white legends on the sids of the sheet read childres (male and female) and young people are subjects of rights.

On upper left corner of the sheet there's also this nice slogan: 25 years past the Convention on the Rights of the Child, its up to us, adults, to grow up.

Thank you so much for the nice cover, Jindrich.