YEARS

1950s
1959/1960 - World Refugee Year
1960s
1961 - International Health and Medical Research Year
1965 - International Cooperation Year
1967 - International Tourist Year
1968 - International Year for Human Rights
1970s
1970 - International Education Year
1971 - International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
1974 - World Population Year
1975 - International Women's Year
1978/1979 - International Anti-Apartheid Year
1979 - International Year of the Child
1980s
1981 - International Year of Disabled Persons
1982 - International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions against South Africa
1983 - World Communications Year
1984 - Year of Women in South Africa
1985 - Year of the United Nations
1985 - International Youth Year
1986 - International Year of Peace
1987 - International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
1990s
1990 - International Literacy Year
1992 - International Space Year
1993 - International Year of 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 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
2000s
2000 - International Year of Thanksgiving
2000 - International Year for the Culture of Peace
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 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 24 session 53 (retrieved 2007-11-19)
2002 - United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
2003 - International Year of Freshwater
2003 - European Disability Year
2004 - International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
2004 - International Year of Rice
2005 - International Year for Sport and Physical Education
2005 - International Year of Microcredit
2005 - World Year of Physics (declared by IUPAP)
2006 - International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2007 - Year of the Dolphin (extended to 2008)
(2007)-2008-(2009) - International Year of Planet Earth - (N.B. Triennium) - and
2007 - Year of the Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia
2008 - International Year of Languages
2008 - International Year of the Potato
2008 - International Year of Sanitation
2009 - International Year of Astronomy (proposal accepted by 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference, proclaimed by United Nations 62nd General Assembly)
2009 - International Year of Natural Fibres
2009 - International Year of Reconciliation
2010s
2010 - International Year of Communications
2011 - International Year of Forests