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The United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 64/134 in December 2009 designating the period beginning on 12 August 2010 as the International... Read more

2010 has been declared the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures by the UN General Assembly, and UNESCO has been assigned a leading rol... Read more

The International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), which took place globally in 2010, was a yearlong celebration of biological diversity and its significan... Read more

2009 is recognized as the "International Year of Reconciliation." This celebration strives to spread the idea of reconciliation across the g... Read more

2009 has been designated as both the International Year of Astronomy and the International Year of Natural Fibres (IYNF) by the UN General Assembly.... Read more

In order to raise awareness of the potato's importance to the world's food supply in the future, the United Nations (UN) commemorated the Inte... Read more

To raise awareness of the value of Earth sciences in advancing sustainable development, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the International Y... Read more

In accordance with a UNESCO resolution, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 to be the International Year of Languages. The necessity of... Read more

The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a year-long astronomy event that took place in 2009 to mark the 400th anniversaries of Johannes Kepl... Read more

Introduction 2008 has been designated as the International Year of Sanitation by the UN General Assembly. Today, about 2.6 billion people throughout t... Read more

The International Commission on Glass (ICG), the Community of Glass Associations (CGA), and ICOM-Glass jointly requested that 2022 be recognized as th... Read more

Introduction World Refugee Year (WRY) was an ambitious effort by the UN, governments (mostly in the First World), and non-governmental organisations ... Read more