INTERNATIONAL YEAS DECLARED BY UNO:

INTERNATIONAL
YEARS
2014
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
(12 August 2010 — 11
August 2011)
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
2007/08
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)
1959/60
World Refugee Year
A/RES/1285 (XIII)