International Years
| 2014 | |
|---|---|
| International Year of Small Island Developing States | A/RES/67/206 |
| International Year of Crystallography | A/RES/66/284 |
| International Year of Family Farming | A/RES/66/222 |
| 2013 | |
| International Year of Water Cooperation | A/RES/65/154 |
| International Year of Quinoa | A/RES/66/221 |
| 2012 | |
| International Year of Cooperatives | A/RES/64/136 |
| International Year of Sustainable Energy for All | A/RES/65/151 |
| 2011 | |
| International Year for People of African Descent | A/RES/64/169 |
| International Year of Chemistry | A/RES/63/209 |
| International Year of Forests | A/RES/61/193 |
| International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011) | A/RES/64/134 |
| 2010 | |
| International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011) | A/RES/64/134 |
| International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures | A/RES/62/90 |
| International Year of Biodiversity | A/RES/61/203 |
| International Year of the Seafarer | |
| 2009 | |
| International Year of Reconciliation | A/RES/61/17 |
| International Year of Natural Fibres | A/RES/61/189 |
| International Year of Human Rights Learning | A/RES/62/171 |
| International Year of Astronomy | A/RES/62/200 |
| Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO) | |
| 2008 | |
| International Year of Planet Earth | A/RES/60/192 |
| International Year of Languages | A/RES/61/266 |
| International Year of Sanitation | A/RES/61/192 |
| International Year of the Potato | A/RES/60/191 |
| 2007/08 | |
| International Polar Year (WMO) | |
| 2006 | |
| International Year of Deserts and Desertification | A/RES/58/211 |
| 2005 | |
| International Year of Microcredit | A/RES/53/197 |
| International Year for Sport and Physical Education | A/RES/58/5 |
| International Year of Physics | A/RES/58/293 |
| 2004 | |
| International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition | A/RES/57/195 |
| International Year of Rice | A/RES/57/162 |
| 2003 | |
| Year of Kyrgyz Statehood | A/RES/57/248 |
| International Year of Freshwater | A/RES/55/196 |
| 2002 | |
| United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage | A/RES/56/8 |
| International Year of Mountains | A/RES/53/24 |
| International Year of Ecotourism | A/RES/53/200 |
| 2001 | |
| United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations | A/RES/53/22 |
| International Year of Volunteers | A/RES/52/17 |
| International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance | A/RES/53/132 |
| 2000 | |
| International Year of Thanksgiving | A/RES/52/16 |
| International Year for the Culture of Peace | A/RES/52/15 |
| 1999 | |
| International Year of Older Persons | A/RES/47/5 A/RES/50/141 |
| 1998 | |
| International Year of the Ocean | A/RES/49/131 |
| 1996 | |
| International Year for the Eradication of Poverty | A/RES/48/183 |
| 1995 | |
| United Nations Year for Tolerance | A/RES/48/126 |
| World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War | A/RES/49/25 |
| 1994 | |
| International Year of the Family | A/RES/44/82 |
| International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal | A/RES/48/10 |
| 1993 | |
| International Year for the World's Indigenous People | A/RES/45/164 A/RES/47/75 |
| 1992 | |
| International Space Year | A/RES/44/46 |
| 1990 | |
| International Literacy Year | A/RES/42/104 |
| 1987 | |
| International Year of Shelter for The Homeless | A/RES/36/71 A/RES/37/221 |
| 1986 | |
| International Year of Peace | A/RES/37/16 A/RES/40/3 |
| 1985 | |
| Year of The United Nations | A/RES/39/161 A |
| International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace | A/RES/34/151 |
| 1983 | |
| World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures | A/RES/36/40 |
| 1982 | |
| International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa | A/RES/36/172 B |
| 1981 | |
| International Year for Disabled Persons | A/RES/31/123 |
| 1979 | |
| International Year of The Child | A/RES/31/169 |
| 1978/79 | |
| International Anti-Apartheid Year | A/RES/32/105 B |
| 1975 | |
| International Women's Year | A/RES/3010 (XXVII) |
| 1974 | |
| World Population Year | A/RES/2683 (XXV) |
| 1971 | |
| International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice | A/RES/2544 (XXIV) |
| 1970 | |
| International Education Year | A/RES/2306 (XXII) A/RES/2412 (XXIII) |
| 1968 | |
| International Year for Human Rights | A/RES/2081 (XX) |
| 1967 | |
| International Tourist Year | A/RES/2148 (XXI) |
| 1965 | |
| International Co-operation Year | A/RES/1907 (XVIII) |
| 1961 | |
| International Health and Medical Research Year | A/RES/1283 (XIII) |
| 1959/60 | |
| World Refugee Year | A/RES/1285 (XIII) |