UNITED NATIONS

INTERNATIONAL DECADES DESIGNATED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1960-1970

[First] United Nations Development Decade

1970s

[First] Disarmament Decade

1971-1980

Second United Nations Development Decade

1973-1983

[First] Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

1976-1985

United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace

1978-1988

[First] Transport and Communications Decade in Africa

1980s

Industrial Development Decade for Africa

1980-1990

Second Disarmament Decade

1981-1990

International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade

1981-1990

Third United Nations Development Decade

1983-1992

United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons

1983-1993

Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

1985-1996

Transport and Communications Decade for Asia and the Pacific

1988-1997

World Decade for Cultural Development

1990-1999

United Nations Decade of International Law

1990-1999

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

1990-1999

Third Disarmament Decade

1990-2000

International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

1991-2000

United Nations Decade Against Drug Abuse

1991-2000

Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa

1991-2000

Fourth United Nations Development Decade

1991-2000

Second Transport and Communications Decade for Africa

1993-2002

Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons

1993-2002

Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa

1993-2003

Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

1994-2004

International Decade of the World's Indigenous People

1995-2005

United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education

1997-2006

United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

2001-2010

International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World

 

Courtesy The United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean Area

 

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