Listed here are all subjects depicted on the various
stamps from the catalogue in alphabetical order. Each subject contains a brief
description and links to the relevant stamp issues.
For quick searches there are separate catalogues:
chronological
subject catalogue - all subjects from a specific year from 1863 to 2009
category
catalogue - all subjects sorted in categories (UN organisations, funds,
years, days, conferences)
For persons see the persons
catalogue.
1st
UNECE Road Safety Week 1990
2nd International
Oceanographic Congress, Moscow 1966
5th
World Forestry Congress, Seattle 1960
13th UPU
Congress, Brussels 1952
14th ECAFE
Conference, Kuala Lumpur 1958
15th UPU
Congress, Vienna 1964
19th UPU
Congress, Hamburg/Salon der Philatelie
zum XIX. Weltpostkongress,
Hamburg 1984
20th UPU
Congress, Washington DC/World Stamp Expo 89, Washington DC 1989
21st UPU
Congress, Seoul/Philakorea 1994, Seoul 1994
22nd UPU
Congress, Beijing/China 1999, Beijing 1999
50th ILO
Governing Body meeting, Brussels 1930
Centre on Integrated
Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP)
Child Survival
and Development Revolution
Commission
on the Status of Women
Consultative
Committee for Postal Studies
Convention on
the Rights of the Child
Day of
Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
Declaration
on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Dialogue
among Civilizations 2002
Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Economic Commission for
Africa (ECA/UNECA)
Economic Commission for
Asia and the Far East (ECAFE)
Emblem and flag
of the United Nations
FAO 40th anniversary
1985-1986
First Disarmament
Decade 1970-1979
First
powered flight 75th anniversary 1978
Flag and emblem
of the United Nations
Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO)
Fourth
World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995
Freedom from
Hunger Campaign 1963
Global
Eradication of Smallpox 1978
Habitat:
United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver 1976
Inauguration
of UNESCO Headquarters, Paris 1958
Inauguration of
UPU Headquarters, Berne 1970
Inauguration of
WHO Headquarters, Geneva 1966
Intergovernmental
Informatics Programme (IIP)
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
International
Anti-Apartheid Year 1978
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
International
Civil Aviation Day
International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International
Co-operation Year 1965 / UNO 20th anniversary 1965
International Conference
on Nutrition, Rome 1992
International
Court of Justice
International Day
for Biological Diversity
International Day of
Disabled Persons
International Day of
Older Persons
International Day of
Persons with Disabilities
International
Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
International
Education Year 1970
International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International
Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP)
International
Hydrological Decade 1965-1974
International
Hydrological Programme (IHP)
International
Labour Office meeting, Berlin 1927
International Labour
Organization
International
Letter Writing Week
International
Literacy Year 1990
International Maritime
Organization (IMO)
International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
International
Mother Language Day
International
Polar Year 2007-2008
International
Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR)
International Telecommunication
Union (ITU/UIT)
International
Tourist Year 1967
International
Women's Year 1975
International
Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination 1971
International
Year for Human Rights 1968
International Year
for the Eradication of Poverty 1996
International
Year of Astronomy 2009
International Year of
Disabled Persons 1981
International
Year of Freshwater 2003
International
Year of Microcredit 2005
International
Year of Mountains 2002
International
Year of Older Persons 1999
International
Year of Peace 1986
International
Year of Physics 2005
International
Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009
International
Year of Rice 2004
International
Year of Sanitation 2008
International Year of
Shelter for the Homeless 1987
International Year of Sport
and Physical Education 2005
International
Year of the Child 1979
International
Year of the Family 1994
International
Year of the Ocean 1998
International
Year of the Potato 2008
International
Year of Volunteers 2001
International Year to
commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition 2004
Invention
of the Telephone Centenary 1976
IPDC
Intergovernmental Council, 4th session, Tashkent 1983
ITU
Plenipotentiary Conference, Nairobi 1982
Korean War -
participating countries
Man and the
Biosphere Programme
Membership of the
United Nations
Membership of the
Universal Postal Union
Onchocersiasis (river blindness)
Peacekeeping forces
- individual countries
Regional
African Meeting of the World Conference on Human Rights, Tunis 1992
Second Disarmament
Decade 1980-1989
Second
International Polar Year 1932-1933
The World United
Against Malaria 1962
Transport and
Communications Decade for Asia and the Pacific 1985-1994
UNESCO Symposium 'Lenin and the development of
science, culture and education', Tampere 1970
United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF)
United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro 1992
United
Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, Vienna 1979
United Nations
Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972
United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries
United
Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
United Nations
Decade against Drug Abuse 1991-2000
United Nations
Decade for Women 1976-1985
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United
Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)
United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations
Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in L. America and the Caribbean
United Nations Postal
Administration (UNPA)
United
Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa
United Nations Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA)
United
Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations 2001
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 10th anniversary 1958
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 15th anniversary 1963
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 25th anniversary 1973
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 30th anniversary 1978
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 40th anniversary 1988
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 50th anniversary 1998
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 60th anniversary 2008
UNO
20th anniversary 1965 / International Co-operation Year 1965
UPU
Administrative Conference on Air Mail, The Hague 1927
World
Communications Year 1983
World
Conference on Human Rights, Vienna 1993
World
Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
World Health
Day 1972 - Your heart is your health
World Health
Day 1976 - Foresight prevents blindness
World Health
Day 1978 - Down with high blood pressure
World Health
Day 1980 - Smoking or health - the choice is yours
World
Health Organization (WHO)
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO)
World Post Day
1998 - World Stamp Day
World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS)
World
Telecommunication and Information Society Day
World
Tourism Conference, Manila 1980
WTO
(Tourism) 10th anniversary 1985
WTO
(Tourism) 20th anniversary 1995
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last revised: 4 September 2010