List of International years of Observance by Uited Nations

S.No	Year	Name of the Year by UNO
1	2016	International Year of Pulses
2	2015	International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies ,Year of Soils
3	2014	International Year of Small Island Developing States
4		International Year of Crystallography
5		International Year of Family Farming
6	2013	International Year of Water Cooperation
7		International Year of Quinoa
8	2012	International Year of Cooperatives
9		International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
10	2011	International Year for People of African Descent
11		International Year of Chemistry
12		International Year of Forests
13		International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011)
14	2010	International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011)
15		International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
16		International Year of Biodiversity
17		International Year of the Seafarer
18	2009	International Year of Reconciliation
19		International Year of Natural Fibres
20		International Year of Human Rights Learning
21		International Year of Astronomy
22		Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO)
23	2008	International Year of Planet Earth
24		International Year of Languages
25		International Year of Sanitation
26		International Year of the Potato
27	2007	International Polar Year (WMO)
28	2006	International Year of Deserts and Desertification
29	2005	International Year of Microcredit
30		International Year for Sport and Physical Education
31		International Year of Physics
32		International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
33		International Year of Rice
34	2003	Year of Kyrgyz Statehood
35		International Year of Freshwater
36	2002	United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
37		International Year of Mountains
38		International Year of Ecotourism
39	2001	United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
40		International Year of Volunteers
41		International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
42	2000	International Year of Thanksgiving
43		International Year for the Culture of Peace
44	1999	International Year of Older Persons
45	1998	International Year of the Ocean
46	1996	International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
47	1995	United Nations Year for Tolerance
48		World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
49	1994	International Year of the Family
50		International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal
51	1993	International Year for the World's Indigenous People
52	1992	International Space Year
53	1990	International Literacy Year
54	1987	International Year of Shelter for The Homeless
55	1986	International Year of Peace
56	1985	Year of The United Nations
57		International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace
58	1983	World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures
59	1982	International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa
60	1981	International Year for Disabled Persons
61	1979	International Year of The Child
62	1978	International Anti-Apartheid Year
63	1975	International Women's Year
64	1974	World Population Year
65	1971	International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice
66	1970	International Education Year
67	1968	International Year for Human Rights
68	1967	International Tourist Year
69	1965	International Co-operation Year
70	1961	International Health and Medical Research Year
71	1959-60	World Refugee Year