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This document lists various international organizations and bodies, including their abbreviations, headquarters locations, and the years the member states joined. It covers United Nations agencies and programs, World Bank groups, other international organizations, Nordic institutions, regional organizations, and related organizations. In total over 70 international groups are mentioned across six categories.
This document lists various international organizations and bodies, including their abbreviations, headquarters locations, and the years the member states joined. It covers United Nations agencies and programs, World Bank groups, other international organizations, Nordic institutions, regional organizations, and related organizations. In total over 70 international groups are mentioned across six categories.
This document lists various international organizations and bodies, including their abbreviations, headquarters locations, and the years the member states joined. It covers United Nations agencies and programs, World Bank groups, other international organizations, Nordic institutions, regional organizations, and related organizations. In total over 70 international groups are mentioned across six categories.
United Nations, specialized agencies and related bodies Abbreviation
(f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since United Nations UN New York 1946 Food and Agriculture Organization FAO Rome 1945 International Atomic Energy Authority IAEA Vienna 1957 International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO Montreal 1944 International Labour Organization ILO Geneva 1945 International Maritime Organization IMO (f. IMCO) London 1960 International Seabed Authority ISA Kingston 1994 International Telecommunications Union ITU Geneva 1949 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ITLOS Hamburg 1996 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO Paris 1964 Universal Postal Union UPU Berne 1874 World Health Organization WHO Geneva 1948 World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Geneva 1986 World Meteorological Organization WMO Geneva 1950 World Trade Organization WTO (f. GATT) Geneva 1968 (Associate 1964) United Nations Programs etc. Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTR Arusha --- International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia ICTY Haag --- International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD Rome --- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC Bonn --- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC (f. UNDCP) Vienna --- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA New York/ Geneva --- United Nations Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD Geneva --- United Nations University UNU Tokyo --- United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme UNUFTP Reykjavk --- United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme UNUGTP Reykjavk --- United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture UNVFVT Geneva --- United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF New York --- United Nations Development Fund for Women UNIFEM New York --- UNIFEM in Iceland --- --- --- United Nations Development Programme UNDP New York --- United Nations Environment Programme UNEP Nairobi --- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Geneva --- UNHCR - Kosovo --- --- --- United Nations Population Fund UNFPA New York --- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinial Refugees UNRWA Gaza/ Amman --- World Food Programme WFP Geneva --- II. World Bank and related bodies Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD Washington 1945 International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID Washington 1966 International Development Association IDA Washington 1961 International Finance Corporation IFC Washington 1956 International Monetary Fund IMF Washington 1945 Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MIGA Washington 1998 III. Other international organizations and bodies Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (Preparatory Commission) CTBTO Vienna (2000) International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES Copenhagen 1938 International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL Lyon 1971 International Exhibitions Bureau (Bureau International d'Expositions) BIE Paris 1999 International Hydrographic Organization IHO Monte Carlo 1970 International Maritime Satellite Organization INMARSAT London 1991 International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ITSO (f. INTELSAT) Washington 1975 International Customs Tariffs Bureau BITD Brussels 1891 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW Haag 1997 Permanent Court of Arbitration PCA Haag 1955 World Customs Organization WCO Brussels 1950 IV. Nordic institutions Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since Nordic Council NR Copenhagen 1952 Nordic Council of Ministers NMR Copenhagen 1952 Nordic Cultural Fund NK Copenhagen 1976 Nordic Development Fund NDF Helsinki 1989 Nordic Environment Finance Corporation NEFCO Helsinki 1990 Nordic Industrial Fund NI Oslo 1973 Nordic Investment Bank NIB Helsinki 1976 Nordic Project Export Fund NOPEF Helsinki 1982 West-Nordic Council VNR Reykjavk 1985 V. Other regional organizations and bodies Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since Arctic Council AC (Changeable) 1996 Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna CAFF Akureyri 1996 Working Group on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment PAME Akureyri 1999 Barents Euro-Arctic Council BEAC (Changeable) 1991 Council of Europe COE Strassbourg 1950 European Centre for Modern Languages ECML Graz 1998 European Foundation for Heritage Skills FEMP Strassbourg --- European Audiovisual Observatory EAO Strassbourg 1992 European Support Fund for the co-production of cinematographic works EURIMAGES Strassbourg --- Council of the Baltic Sea States CBSS Stockholm 1995 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD London 1991 European Free Trade Association EFTA Geneva 1970 EFTA Court --- Luxembourg 1994 EFTA Development Fund EFTA-DF Brussels 1994 EFTA Industrial Development Fund for Portugal EFTA-IFP Genva 1977 EFTA Surveillance Authority ESA Brussels 1994 European Telecommunications Satellite Organization EUTELSAT Paris 1987 North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission NAMMCO Trondheim 1992 North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization NASCO Edinborough 1983 North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO Brussels 1949 NATO Parliamentary Assembly (f. North Atlantic Assembly) NATO PA --- --- North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission NEAFC London 1982 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization NAFO Darmouth 1979 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (f. OEEC) Paris 1961 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCE Vienna 1972 OSCE Parliamentary Assembly OSCE PA --- --- Western European Union WEU Brussels 1993 (Associate) Related organizations Abbreviation (f.=formerly) Headquarters Member since Audiovisual Eureka AE Brussels 1995 Australia Group AG (Changeable) 1993 Bank for International Settlements BIS Basel --- Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species CITES Geneva 2000 Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic OSPAR London 1998 European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization CENELEC Brussels 1988 European Committee for Standardization CEN Brussels 1988 European Molecular Biology Organisation EMBO Heidelberg --- European Union EU Brussels Not a member International Astronomical Union IAU Paris 1988 International Commission on Missing Persons ICMP --- --- International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC Geneva --- International Electrotechnical Commission IEC Geneva 1998 (Associate) International Parliamentarians Union IPU Geneva 1951 International Standards Organization ISO Geneva 1992 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics IUGG Toulouse 1967 International Union of Geological Sciences IUGS Trondheim 1962 Missile Technology Control Regime MTCR (Changeable) 1993 Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics SCOSTEP (f. IUCSTP) (Changeable) 1978 (1969) World Conservation Union IUCN (f. IUPN) Gland 1973 World Energy Council