As well as the annual celebration of certain UN-designated days and weeks, we find ourselves in the midst of celebrating several on-going internationally-declared decades (proclaimed by the UN General Assembly). Often, an international decade is launched by either an international year or on an international day.
| 1993-2002 | Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa |
| 1993-2002 | Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons |
| 1993-2003 | Third International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination |
| 1994-2003 | International Decade for the World's Indigenous People (following 1993 International Year for World's Indigenous People) |
| 1995-2004 | United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education |
| 1997-2006 | United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (following 1996 International Year for the Eradication of Poverty) |
| 2001-2010 | International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (following 2000 International Year for the Culture of Peace) |
| 2001-2010 | Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism |
| 2001-2010 | Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa |
| 2003-2012 | United Nations Literacy Decade: Literacy for All (from 8 September 2003 - International Literacy Day) |
| 2005-2014 | Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People |
| 2005-2014 | United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development |
| 2005-2015 | International Decade for Action, “Water for Life” (from 22 March 2005 - World Water Day) |
| 2006-2016 | Decade of Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions (relating to the Chernobyl disaster) |
| 2008-2017 | Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty |
| 2010-2020 | United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification |
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