Resolution A/RES/58/211 of 23 December 2003 on the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (2005)

2006 International Year of Deserts and Desertification; UN Secretary-General interim report is presented to the General AssemblyPress Release (2 November 2005)

United Nations Launches International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2006 to Profile Desertification as a Major Thread to Humanity (23 December 2005) 

Launch of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (1 January 2006)

Message of the Secretary-General (24 October 2005)

Press Conference on the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (15 September 2005)

Land Degradation, Desertification Pose Challenge to Achieving Anti-Poverty Goals, UN Says (24 October 2005)

Brochure: International Year of Deserts and Desertification

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