INTERNATIONAL YEARS DECLARED BY UNITED NATIONS
- 1968 Human rights
- 1970 Education year
- 1979 Racism and racial prejudice
- 1987 Shelter for the homeless
- 1975 Women year
- 1979 Child year
- 1999 Elderly persons
- 1981 Disabled persons
- 1985, 2010-2011 UN, Youth year peace participation development
- 1994 Family
- 2005 Micro credit year
- 2009 Human Rights learning reconciliation
- 2011 Forests, African descent, youth
- 2012 Cooperative, sustainable energy
- 2013 Water cooperation
- 2014 Family planning (farming) small Island developing states
- 2015 Soils, light & light based technologies
- 2016 Pulses
- 2008 Sanitation, planet earth
- 2017 Sustainable tourism
- 2006 Deserts and desertification
- 2004 Struggle against slavery and its abolition
- 2001 Volunteers, dialogue monglivilization racism racial xenophobia
- 1996 Eradication of poverty
- 1995 Tolerance, II world war victims
- 1993 Indigenous people
- 1990 Literacy year
IMPORTANT DAYS
JANUARY- 5 January – Louis Braille Day
- 12 January – National Youth Day
- 31 January – World Leprosy Eradication Day
- 4 Feb – World Cancer Day
- 6 Feb. – Zero tolerance to female genital mutilation
- 20 Feb. World Day of social Justice
- World social work Day – Third Tuesday of March
- 8 March – Women’s Day
- 16 March –World consumer Day
- 16 March -National Vaccination Day
- 21 March- Racial Discrimination Day
- 22 March World Water Day
- 24 March World TB Day
- 4 April-International Mine Awareness Day
- 7 April- World Health Day
- 22 April- World Earth Day
- 25 April -World Malaria Day
- 28 April- Safety and Health at workday
- 15 May-World Family Day
- 31 May-World No Tobacco Day
- 1 June-World Parents Day
- 5 June-World Environment Day
- 14 June-World Blood Donor Day
- 15 June-World Elder Abuse Day
- 21 June-World Yoga Day
- 26 June-World Disabled Day
- 2 July-World Cooperatives' Day
- 11 July-World Population Day
- 28 July-World Hepatitis Day
- 30 July-World Day against Trafficking
AUGUST
- 9 August-World Indigenous people Day
- 12 August-International Youth Day
- 19 August-World Humanitarian Day
- 23August-International Day for the remembrance of Slave Trade
- 30 August-International Day of Disappeared Persons
- 5 Sept. – National Teachers Day
- 8 Sept.-International Literacy Day
- 21 Sept.- World Alzheimer's Day
- 1 Oct.-International Older Persons Day
- 2 Oct.- International Non Violence Day
- 3 Oct-World Habitat Day
- 5 Oct.-International Teacher Day
- 10 Oct.-Worlds Mental Health Day
- 11 Oct.-International girl child Day
- 13 Oct.-International Disaster reduction Day
- 15 Oct.-International Day of Rural woman
- 16 Oct.-World Food Day
- 17 Oct.-International Day of eradication of Poverty
- 24 Oct.-United Nations Day
- 10 Nov-World Science Day of Peace & Development
- 14 Nov.-World Diabetes Day
- 16 Nov.-International Day for Tolerance
- 16 Nov.-National Press Day
- 19 Nov.-International Men’s Day
- 20 Nov.-International Children Day
- 25 Nov.-International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- 1 Dec.-World AIDS Day
- 2 Dec.-International Day for Abolition of Slavery
- 3 Dec.-World Disabled Day
- 5 Dec.-World Day on Economic and Social Development
- 9 Dec.-National Balika Divas
- 9 Dec.-International Crime and Anticorruption Day
- 10 Dec.-International Human Rights Day