International Years of United Nations

 

Year	International Year
1959/1960	World Refugee Year
1961	International Health and Medical Research Year
1965	International Co-operation Year
1967	International Tourist Year
1968	International Year for Human Rights
1970	International Education Year
1971	International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice
1974	World Population Year
1975	International Women’s Year
1978/79	International Anti-Apartheid Year
1979	International Year of The Child
1981	International Year for Disabled Persons
1982	International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa
1983	World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures
1985	International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace
1985	Year of the United Nations
1986	International Year of Peace
1987	International Year of Shelter for The Homeless
1990	International Literacy Year
1992	International Space Year
1993	International Year for the World’s Indigenous People
1994	International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
1994	International Year of the Family
1995	World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
1995	United Nations Year for Tolerance
1996	International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
1998	International Year of the Ocean
1999	International Year of Older Persons
2000	International Year for the Culture of Peace
2000	International Year of Thanksgiving
2001	International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
2001	International Year of Volunteers
2001	United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
2002	International Year of Ecotourism
2002	International Year of Mountains
2002	United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
2003	International Year of Freshwater
2003	Year of Kyrgyz Statehood
2004	International Year of Rice
2004	International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition