Which of the following decade is celebrated as Bone and Joint Decade, recognised by WHO?
Answer: B
2001–2010 was the Bone and Joint Decade, recognised by the WHO.
It drew attention to musculoskeletal disorders - arthritis, osteoporosis, back pain and injury - which cause more years lived with disability than any other group of conditions.
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Which of the following decade is celebrated as Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa recognized by the UN?
Answer: B
2001–2010 was the Decade to Roll Back Malaria, particularly in Africa.
Africa carries about 90 per cent of the world's malaria deaths, most of them children under five. The decade's push on bed nets and artemisinin treatment cut mortality substantially.
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The United Nations declared 2005 as the international Year of-
Answer: D
2005 was the World Year of Physics, the International Year of Microcredit and the International Year for Sport and Physical Education - all three.
The physics year marked the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis of 1905, in which he published the papers on relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion.
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Which of the following decade is celebrated as United Nations Literacy Decade, recognized by the UN?
Answer: D
2003–2012 was the United Nations Literacy Decade, coordinated by UNESCO.
Its slogan was 'Literacy as freedom', and it focused especially on women and girls, who are about two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults.
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Which of the following decades is celebrated as the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development, recognised by the UN?
Answer: A
2005–2014 was the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
Led by UNESCO, it sought to build sustainability into education at every level, so that schooling would form the values and skills the transition requires.
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Which of the following decade is celebrated as United Nations Literacy Decade, recognized by the UN?
Answer: A
2003–2012 was the United Nations Literacy Decade.
UNESCO coordinated it under the theme 'Literacy as freedom', with the aim of raising adult literacy rates by half over the period.
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The United Nations declared October as the-
Answer: A
The UN observes October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Its symbol is the pink ribbon. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women worldwide, and the month promotes early detection, which raises survival sharply.
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The United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of-
Answer: C
2010 was both the International Year of Biodiversity and the International Year of Youth.
The biodiversity year marked the target date for significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss - a target that was missed. The youth year ran from August 2010 under the theme 'Dialogue and Mutual Understanding'.
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The United Nations declared May 25-31 Week as the
Answer: C
25–31 May is the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
It is observed by the UN's Special Committee on Decolonisation, and draws attention to the seventeen territories still on the UN list as not fully self-governing.
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UNESCO declared 2011 as the International Year of
Answer: C
UNESCO declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry.
Its theme was 'Chemistry - our life, our future'. The year marked the centenary of Marie Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies.
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