International Years

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• 2024 - International Year of Camelids (A/RES/72/210)

• 2022 - International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (A/RES/72/72)

• 2021 - International Year of Peace and Trust (A/RES/73/338)
  International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development (A/RES/74/198) 
  International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (A/RES/74/244)

• 2020 - International Year of Plant Health (A/RES/73/252)
  International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife [WHO]

• 2019 - International Year of Indigenous Languages (A/RES/71/178)
  International Year of Moderation  (A/RES/72/129)
  International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements  (A/RES/72/228)

• 2017 - International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development  (A/RES/70/193)

• 2016 - International Year of Pulses  (A/RES/68/231)

• 2015 - International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies   (A/RES/68/221)
  International Year of Soils (A/RES/68/232)

• 2014 - International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (A/RES/68/12)
  International Year of Small Island Developing States  (A/RES/67/206)
  International Year of Crystallography (A/RES/66/284)
  International Year of Family Farming (A/RES/66/222)

• 2013 - International Year of Water Cooperation  (A/RES/65/154)
  International Year of Quinoa (A/RES/66/221)

• 2012 - International Year of Cooperatives   (A/RES/64/136)
  International Year of Sustainable Energy for All   (A/RES/65/151)

• 2011 - International Year for People of African Descent   (A/RES/64/169)
  International Year of Chemistry   (A/RES/63/209)
  International Year of Forests   (A/RES/61/193)
  International Year of Youth  (A/RES/64/134)

• 2010 - International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011)   (A/RES/64/134)
  International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures   (A/RES/62/90)
  International Year of Biodiversity   (A/RES/61/203)
  International Year of the Seafarer

• 2009 - International Year of Reconciliation   (A/RES/61/17)
  International Year of Natural Fibres   (A/RES/61/189)
  International Year of Human Rights Learning   (A/RES/62/171)
  International Year of Astronomy   (A/RES/62/200)
  Year of the Gorilla [UNEP and UNESCO]

• 2008 - International Year of Planet Earth   (A/RES/60/192)
  International Year of Languages   (A/RES/61/266)
  International Year of Sanitation   (A/RES/61/192)
  International Year of the Potato   (A/RES/60/191)

• 2007-2008 - International Polar Year (WMO)  

• 2006 - International Year of Deserts and Desertification   (A/RES/58/211)

• 2005 - International Year of Microcredit   (A/RES/53/197)
  International Year for Sport and Physical Education   (A/RES/58/5)
  International Year of Physics   (A/RES/58/293)

• 2004 - International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition   (A/RES/57/195)
  International Year of Rice   (A/RES/57/162)

• 2003 - Year of Kyrgyz Statehood   (A/RES/57/248)
  International Year of Freshwater   (A/RES/55/196)

• 2002 - United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage   (A/RES/56/8)
  International Year of Mountains   (A/RES/53/24)
  International Year of Ecotourism   (A/RES/53/200)

• 2001 - United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations   (A/RES/53/22)
  International Year of Volunteers   (A/RES/52/17)
  International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance   (A/RES/53/132)

• 2000 - International Year of Thanksgiving   (A/RES/52/16)
  International Year for the Culture of Peace   (A/RES/52/15)

• 1999 - International Year of Older Persons   (A/RES/47/5  A/RES/50/141)

• 1998 - International Year of the Ocean   (A/RES/49/131)

• 1996 - International Year for the Eradication of Poverty   (A/RES/48/183)

• 1995 - United Nations Year for Tolerance   (A/RES/48/126)
  World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War   (A/RES/49/25)

• 1994 - International Year of the Family  (A/RES/44/82)
  International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal   (A/RES/48/10)

• 1993 - International Year for the World's Indigenous People   (A/RES/45/164 A/RES/47/75)

• 1992 - International Space Year  (A/RES/44/46)

• 1990 - International Literacy Year  (A/RES/42/104)

• 1987 - International Year of Shelter for The Homeless   (A/RES/36/71 A/RES/37/221)

• 1986 - International Year of Peace   (A/RES/37/16 A/RES/40/3)

• 1985 - Year of the United Nations  (A/RES/39/161 A)
  International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace   (A/RES/34/151)

• 1983 - World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures   (A/RES/36/40)

• 1982 - International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa   (A/RES/36/172 B)

• 1981 - International Year for Disabled Persons   (A/RES/31/123)

• 1979 - International Year of The Child   (A/RES/31/169)

• 1978/79 - International Anti-Apartheid Year   (A/RES/32/105 B)

• 1975 - International Women's Year   (A/RES/3010 (XXVII))

• 1974 - World Population Year    (A/RES/2683 (XXV))

• 1971 - International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice   (A/RES/2544 (XXIV))

• 1970 - International Education Year   (A/RES/2306 (XXII) A/RES/2412 (XXIII))

• 1968 - International Year for Human Rights    (A/RES/2081 (XX))

• 1967 - International Tourist Year    (A/RES/2148 (XXI))

• 1965 - International Co-operation Year  (A/RES/1907 (XVIII))

• 1961 - International Health and Medical Research Year   (A/RES/1283 (XIII))

• 1959/1960 - World Refugee Year    (A/RES/1285 (XIII))

 

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International Decades

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• 2021–2030 - United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (A/RES/73/284)

• 2021–2030 - International Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (A/RES/72/73)

• 2019–2028 - Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace (A/RES/73/1)
  United Nations Decade of Family Farming (A/RES/72/239)

• 2018–2028 - International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development" (A/RES/71/222)

• 2018-2027 - Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (A/RES/72/233)

• 2016–2025 - United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (A/RES/70/259)
  Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (A/RES/70/293)

• 2015–2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent   (A/RES/68/237)

• 2014–2024 - United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All   (A/RES/67/215)

• 2011–2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism   (A/RES/65/119)
  United Nations Decade on Biodiversity   (A/RES/65/161)
  Decade of Action for Road Safety   (A/RES/64/255)

• 2010–2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification   (A/RES/62/195)

• 2008–2017 - Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty   (A/RES/62/205)

• 2006–2016 - Decade of Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions (third decade after the Chernobyl disaster)   (A/RES/62/9)

• 2005–2015 - International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”  (A/RES/58/217)

• 2005–2014 - United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development   (A/RES/57/254)
  Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People   (A/RES/59/174)

• 2003–2012 - United Nations Literacy Decade: Education for All (A/RES/56/116)

• 2001–2010 - International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World  (A/RES/53/25) 
  Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa   (A/RES/60/221)
  Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism   (A/RES/55/146)

• 1997–2006 - Decade for The Eradication for Poverty  (A/RES/50/107)

• 1995–2004 - Decade for Human Rights Education    (A/RES/49/184)

• 1994–2004 - Decade of the World's Indigenous People    (A/RES/48/163)

• 1993–2003 - Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination    (A/RES/48/91)

• 1991–2000 - Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa    (A/RES/44/237 A/RES/47/177)
  Second Transport and Communications Decade in Africa   (A/RES/43/179)
  United Nations Decade Against Drug Abuse    (A/RES/S-17/2)
  Fourth United Nations Development Decade (A/RES/45/199)

• 1990–2000 - International Decade for the Eradification of Colonialism  (A/RES/43/47)

• 1990–1999 -  United Nations Decade of International Law   (A/RES/44/23) 
  International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction  (A/RES/42/169)   (A/RES/44/236)

• 1990S - Third Disarmament Decade   (A/RES/43/78 L A/RES/45/62 A)

• 1988–1997 - World Decade for Cultural Development    (A/RES/41/187)

• 1983–1993 - Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination   (A/RES/38/14)

• 1983–1992 - United Nations Decade for Disabled Persons  (A/RES/37/53)

• 1981–1990 -  - International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade   (A/RES/35/18) 
  Third United Nations Development Decade  (A/RES/35/56)

• 1980–1990 - Second Disarmament Decade  (A/RES/35/46)

• 1980S - Industrial Development Decade for Africa  (A/RES/35/66 B)

• 1978–1988 - Transport and Communications Decade for Africa  (A/RES/32/160)

• 1976–1985 - United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace   (A/RES/3520 (XXX))

• 1973–1983 - Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination  (A/RES/2919 (XXVII)

• 1971–1980 - Second United Nations Development Decade  (A/RES/2626 (XXV))

• 1970S - Disarmament Decade  (A/RES/2602 E (XXIV))

• 1960–1970 - United Nations Development Decade  (A/RES/1710 (XVI))