These are the international years currently observed by the United Nations
2017👇👇
International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
2016👇👇
International Year of Pulses
2015👇👇👇
International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
International Year of Soils
2014👇👇👇
International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
International Year of Small Island Developing States
International Year of Crystallography
International Year of Family Farming
2013👇👇
International Year of Water Cooperation
International Year of Quinoa
2012👇👇
International Year of Cooperatives
International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
2011👇👇👇
International Year for People of African Descent
International Year of Chemistry
International Year of Forests
International Year of Youth
2010👇👇
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.
2009👇👇👇
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)
2008👇👇
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of Languages
International Year of Sanitation
International Year of the Potato
2007-2008👇👇
International Polar Year (WMO)
2006👇👇
International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2005👇👇
International Year of Microcredit
International Year for Sport and Physical Education
International Year of Physics
2004👇👇
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
International Year of Rice
2003👇👇
Year of Kyrgyz Statehood
International Year of Freshwater
2002👇👇👇
United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
International Year of Mountains
International Year of Ecotourism
2001👇👇👇
United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
International Year of Volunteers
International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
2000👇👇
International Year of Thanksgiving
International Year for the Culture of Peace
1999👇👇
International Year of Older Persons
1998👇👇
International Year of the Ocean
1996👇👇
International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
1995👇👇
United Nations Year for Tolerance
World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
1994👇👇
International Year of the Family
International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
1993👇👇
International Year for the World's Indigenous People
1992👇👇👇
International Space Year
1990👇👇
International Literacy Year
1987👇👇
International Year of Shelter for The Homeles
1986👇
International Year of Peace
1985👇
Year of the United Nations
International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace.
1983👇
World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures
1982👇
International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa
1981👇
International Year for Disabled Persons
1979👇
International Year of The Child
1978/79👇
International Anti-Apartheid Year
1975👇
International Women's Year
1974👇
World Population Year
1971👇👇
International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice
1970👇👇
International Education Year
1968👇
International Year for Human Rights
1967👇
International Tourist Year
1965👇
International Co-operation Year
1961👇
International Health and Medical Research Year
1959/1960👇
World Refugee Year
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