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..............................LIST OF WORLD INTERNATIONAL YEARS........ OBSERVED AS


1950s

1957/1958 - International Geophysical Year
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

1969 - International Year of Love

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 - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 104 session 42 International Literacy Year on 7 December 1987

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

2000 - World Mathematical Year

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 - International Heliophysical Year

2007-2008-(2009) - International Polar Year

(2007)-2008-(2009) - International Year of Planet Earth - (N.B. Triennium) -
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

2008 - International Year of the Frog

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
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