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
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
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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