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UNESCO participates in the celebration of the following International Years, most of them proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations:
2021
International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development (A/RES/74/198)
2019
International Year of Indigenous Languages (A/RES/71/178)
International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (A/RES/72/228, draft A/72/422/Add.2 and 39C/ decision 60)
2017
International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (A/RES/70/193)
2015
International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (Resolution A/RES/68/221)
2014
International Year of Crystallography (Resolution A/RES/66/284; implemented by UNESCO)
International Year of Small Island Developing States (Resolution A/RES/67/206; UN website)
International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (Resolution A/RES/68/12)
2013
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (not a UN international year, under the patronage of UNESCO)
International Year of Water Cooperation (Resolution A/RES/65/154; Coordinated by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water)
2012
International year of Cooperatives (Resolution 64/136)
2011
International Year of Chemistry
International Year of Forests
2010
International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
International Year of Biodiversity
2009
International Year of Reconciliation
International Year of Astronomy
2008
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of Languages
2005
International Year for Sport and Physical Education
2004
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
2003
International Year of Freshwater
2002
United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
For a comprehensive list of all years the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies observe see International Years.