U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS

      2014          : International Year of Family Farming, International Year of Crystallography

2013          : International Year of Quinoa, International Year of Water Co-operation

2012          : International Year of Co-operatives, International Year of Sustainable 
                    Energy for All

2011          : International Year of Forests, International Year of Chemistry, International 

                    Year for People of African Descent

      2010          : International Year of Biodiversity

2009          : International Year of Astronomy, International Year of Natural Fibers,  

                         International Year of Reconciliation, International Year of Human Rights  
                         Learning

     2008          : International Year of Languages, International Year of Potato, International

                    Year of Sanitation, International Year of Planet Earth

     2007          :  International Polar Year, International Dolphin Year

     2006          : International Co-operatives Year of Deserts and Desertification

     2005          : International Year of Microcredit, International Year for Sport and Physical

                    Education, International Year of Physics

    
     2004          : International Year of Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its

                    Abolition, International Year of Rice

2003          : Year of Kyrgyz Statehood, International Year of Freshwater

2002          : United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, International Year of Mountains, 

                    International Year of Ecotourism

2001          : United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, International Year of

                    Volunteers, International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial

                    Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

2000          : International Year of Thanksgiving, International Year for the Culture of

                    Peace