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Poster with the numbers 75 and many signatures.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (24 October), the President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, invited all Member and Observer States to sign the preamble of the UN Charter. UN Photo/Manuel Elías

The United Nations observes milestone anniversaries of key events in its history.

2024

60th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

2023

75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

2022

50th anniversary of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

2022

50th anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

2020

75th anniversary of the United Nations

2019

100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization

2019

75th anniversary of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

2018

70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2018

70th anniversary of UN Peacekeeping

2018

70th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

2018

25th Anniversary of UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination

2018

25th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

2018

20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

2018

20th anniversary of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court

2015

70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations

2015

Thirty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (A/RES/70/69)

2014

20th anniversary of the International Year of the Family

2012

60th anniversary of the UN Disarmament Commission (11 January)

2012

40th anniversary of the Seabed Treaty (18 May)

2012

20th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Minorities (18 December)

2011

25th Anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development (4 December)

2011

50th Anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld (18 September)

2011

25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster (26 April)

2010

50th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (14 December)

2009

20th Anniversary of the Adoption by the General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

2008

60th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping Operations

2008

60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1998

50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights