These are the international years currently observed by the United Nations
2017๐๐
International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
2016๐๐
International Year of Pulses
2015๐๐๐
International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
International Year of Soils
2014๐๐๐
International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
International Year of Small Island Developing States
International Year of Crystallography
International Year of Family Farming
2013๐๐
International Year of Water Cooperation
International Year of Quinoa
2012๐๐
International Year of Cooperatives
International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
2011๐๐๐
International Year for People of African Descent
International Year of Chemistry
International Year of Forests
International Year of Youth
2010๐๐
International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011)
International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
International Year of Biodiversity.
International Year of the Seafarer.
2009๐๐๐
International Year of Reconciliation
International Year of Natural Fibres
International Year of Human Rights Learning
International Year of Astronomy
Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO)
2008๐๐
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of Languages
International Year of Sanitation
International Year of the Potato
2007-2008๐๐
International Polar Year (WMO)
2006๐๐
International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2005๐๐
International Year of Microcredit
International Year for Sport and Physical Education
International Year of Physics
2004๐๐
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
International Year of Rice
2003๐๐
Year of Kyrgyz Statehood
International Year of Freshwater
2002๐๐๐
United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
International Year of Mountains
International Year of Ecotourism
2001๐๐๐
United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
International Year of Volunteers
International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
2000๐๐
International Year of Thanksgiving
International Year for the Culture of Peace
1999๐๐
International Year of Older Persons
1998๐๐
International Year of the Ocean
1996๐๐
International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
1995๐๐
United Nations Year for Tolerance
World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
1994๐๐
International Year of the Family
International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
1993๐๐
International Year for the World's Indigenous People
1992๐๐๐
International Space Year
1990๐๐
International Literacy Year
1987๐๐
International Year of Shelter for The Homeles
1986๐
International Year of Peace
1985๐
Year of the United Nations
International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace.
1983๐
World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures
1982๐
International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa
1981๐
International Year for Disabled Persons
1979๐
International Year of The Child
1978/79๐
International Anti-Apartheid Year
1975๐
International Women's Year
1974๐
World Population Year
1971๐๐
International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice
1970๐๐
International Education Year
1968๐
International Year for Human Rights
1967๐
International Tourist Year
1965๐
International Co-operation Year
1961๐
International Health and Medical Research Year
1959/1960๐
World Refugee Year
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