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Important Years Observed by UNO

Contemporary United Nations International Decade

1967 International Tourism Year
1968 Human Rights Year
1970 International Education Year
1972 International Book Year
1974 World Population Year
1975 International Women's Year
1979 International Year of Children
1981 International Year of Disabled
1983 World Communication Year
1985 International Year of Youth
1986 International Year of Peace
1987 International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
1990 International Literary Year
1992 International Year of Space
1993

International Year for Indigenous Population

1994 International Year of Family
1995 International Year of Tolerance
1998 International Year of Ocean
1999 International Year of Older Persons
2000 Designated as Development Decade
2001 International Year of Women Empowerment
2002 International Mountain Year
2003 International Fresh Water Year
2004 International Rice Year
2005 Year of Physics
2006 International Year of Desert and Desertification
2008 International Year of the Potato
 
 

Contemporary United Nations International Decade

1990 to 1999 Third Disarmament Decade
1990 to 1999 International Decade for Prevention of Natural Climate
1991 to 2000 United Nations Decade for International Law
1991 to 2000 United Nations Fourth Development Decade
1991 to 2000 Second Decade in Africa for Communication and Traffic
1993 to 2002 Second Decade of Industrial Development in Africa
1993 to 2002 Asian and Prashant Decade for Handi-Capped People
1993 to 2002 Third Decade Against Racialism and Racial Discrimination
1994 to 2004 International Decade for Indigenous People in the World
1995 to 2004 United Nations Decade for Human Right Education
1997 to 2006 United Nations Decade for Abolition of Poverty
2001 to 2010 Second International Decade for Abolition of Colonialism
2001 to 2010 International Decade for Peace and Non-violence Culture in Children