Listed here are all events depicted on the various
stamps from the catalogue in chronological order. Each subject contains a brief
description and links to the relevant stamp issues.
General
United Nations subjects
United
Nations Principal Organs
Committees,
programmes and funds
International
Conferences - UN general
International
Conferences - Specialized Agencies
Organizations and general subjects can be found in
alphabetical order in the ordinary subject
catalogue.
Subjects from a specific year can be found in the chronological subject catalogue.
For persons see the persons
catalogue.
General United Nations subjects
Emblem and flag of the United Nations
Flag and emblem of the United Nations
Membership of the United Nations
United Nations Principal Organs
International Court of
Justice
Inauguration of UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris 1958
Inauguration of UPU Headquarters, Berne
1970
Inauguration of WHO Headquarters, Geneva
1966
Food
and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO)
International
Labour Organization
International
Maritime Organization (IMO)
International
Monetary Fund (IMF)
International
Telecommunication Union (ITU/UIT)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United
Nations Postal Administration (UNPA)
United
Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World
Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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)
Committees,
programmes and funds
Commission on the Status
of Women
Consultative
Committee for Postal Studies
Intergovernmental
Informatics Programme (IIP)
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International
Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP)
International
Hydrological Programme (IHP)
International Radio
Consultative Committee (CCIR)
Man and the Biosphere Programme
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Emergency
Force (UNEF)
United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Child Survival and Development Revolution
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Declaration on Granting
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Freedom from Hunger Campaign 1963
Global Eradication of
Smallpox 1978
Onchocersiasis
(river blindness)
The World United Against Malaria 1962
United Nations
Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in L. America and the Caribbean
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
International
Anti-Apartheid Year 1978
International Co-operation
Year 1965 / UNO 20th anniversary 1965
International Education Year
1970
International Literacy Year 1990
International Polar Year 2007-2008
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
Second International Polar
Year 1932-1933
United Nations Year of Dialogue
among Civilizations 2001
World Communications Year 1983
First Disarmament Decade 1970-1979
International Hydrological
Decade 1965-1974
Second Disarmament Decade 1980-1989
Transport and
Communications Decade for Asia and the Pacific 1985-1994
United Nations
Decade against Drug Abuse 1991-2000
United Nations
Decade for Women 1976-1985
1st UNECE Road Safety Week 1990
International Letter
Writing Week
Day of
Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
International Civil
Aviation Day
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 Mother
Language Day
United Nations Day for Women's
Rights and International Peace
World Day to Combat
Desertification and Drought
World Telecommunication and
Information Society Day
International Conferences - UN general
Fourth World Conference on
Women, Beijing 1995
Habitat: United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements, Vancouver 1976
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
World Conference on Human
Rights, Vienna 1993
International Conferences - Specialized Agencies
FAO
International Conference
on Nutrition, Rome 1992
5th World Forestry Congress,
Seattle 1960
ILO
50th ILO Governing Body meeting, Brussels
1930
International Labour Office meeting, Berlin
1927
ITU
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference,
Nairobi 1982
World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS)
UNESCO
2nd International
Oceanographic Congress, Moscow 1966
IPDC Intergovernmental Council, 4th
session, Tashkent 1983
UNESCO Symposium 'Lenin and the development of
science, culture and education', Tampere 1970
UPU
UPU Administrative Conference on Air Mail,
The Hague 1927
13th UPU Congress, Brussels 1952
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
WHO
International Conference
on Nutrition, Rome 1992
Others
14th ECAFE Conference, Kuala Lumpur 1958
Regional African Meeting of
the World Conference on Human Rights, Tunis 1992
United
Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa
World Tourism Conference,
Manila 1980
Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and
the Pacific (CIRDAP)
First powered flight 75th anniversary
1978
Invention of the Telephone
Centenary 1976
Membership of the Universal Postal Union
Peacekeeping forces
- individual countries
UNOstamps catalogue page 008
last revised: 4 September 2010