United Nations International Years - Complete list

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United Nations International Years - Complete list

S.No Year Designated by UN as
Important 2020 The United Nations (UN) is declaring 2020 the ‘International Year of Plant Health.’ Capping off the ‘Decade on Biodiversity,’ the UN continues to recognize and promote healthy ecosystems as key to sustainable development.
1. 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
2. 2018 Contrary to common practice, the United Nations has not declared 2018 as International Year for any specific topic.
3. 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
4. 2016 International Year of Pulses
5. 2015 International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies
6. 2015 International Year of Soils
7. 2014 International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
8. 2014 International Year of Small Island Developing States
9. 2014 International Year of Family Farming
10. 2014 International Year of Crystallography
11. 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation
12. 2013 International Year of Quinoa
13. 2012 International Year of Cooperatives
14. 2012 International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
15. 2011 International Year for People of African Descent

LIST OF UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL YEARS 

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Since 1959 the UN has designated International Years in order to draw attention to major issues and to encourage international action to address concerns which have global importance and ramifications.

16. 2011 International Year of Chemistry
17. 2011 International Year of Forests
18. 2011 International Year of Youth
19. 2010 International Year of the Seafarer
20. 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
21. 2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
22. 2009 International Year of Reconciliation
23. 2009 International Year of Natural Fibres
24. 2009 International Year of Human Rights Learning
25. 2009 International Year of Astronomy
26. 2009 Year of the Gorilla
27. 2008 International Year of Planet Earth
28. 2008 International Year of Languages
29. 2008 International Year of Sanitation
30. 2008 International Year of the Potato
31. 2007 International Polar Year

 



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