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International Organizations and Headquarters UN Organizations

Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
United Nations
UN
New York
City, USA
1945
Food
and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Palazzo FAO,
Rome, Italy
1945
International
Labour Organization
ILO
Geneva,
Switzerland
1919
International
Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO
Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
1947
International
Maritime Organization
IMO
London,
United Kingdom
1959
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR
 Geneva,
Switzerland
1950
Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNAIDS
Geneva,
Switzerland
1996
United
Nations Atomic Energy Commission
UNAEC
New York
City, USA
1946
United
Nations Capital Development Fund
UNCDF
New York
City, USA
United Nations Children’s Fund
UNICEF
New York
City, USA
1946
United
Nations Development Programme
UNDP
New York
City, USA
1965
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization 
UNESCO
 Paris,
France
1946
United
Nations Environment Programme
UNEP
Nairobi,
Kenya
1972
United
Nations Human Settlements Programme
UN-Habitat
 Nairobi,
Kenya
1978
United
Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIDO
Vienna,
Austria
1985
United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
UNISDR
Geneva,
Switzerland
2000
United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC
Vienna,
Austria
1997
Universal Postal
Union
UPU
Bern,
Switzerland
1874
World Health
Organization
WHO
Geneva,
Switzerland
1948
World
Intellectual Property Organization
WIPO
Geneva,
Switzerland
1967
World Food Programme
WFP
Rome, Italy
1961
World
Meteorological Organization
WMO
Geneva,
Switzerland
1950
World Tourism
Organization
UNWTO
Madrid, Spain
1957
International
Rescue Committee
IRC
New York
City, United States
1933
International
Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA
Vienna,
Austria
1957
International
Telecommunication Union
ITU
Geneva,
Switzerland
1947
Office
of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR
Geneva,
Switzerland
1993

Political and Economic Organizations

Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
European Union
EU
Brussels
1958
African, Caribbean and
Pacific Group of States
ACP
Brussels –
Belgium
1975
African Union
AU
Addis
Ababa, Johannesburg
2001y
Andean
Community
CAN
Lima, Peru.
1969
Arab League(League of Arab
States)
–
Cairo
1905y
Arab Maghreb Union
AMU
Rabat,
Morocco
1956
Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation
APEC
Singapore
1905y
Association
of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN
Jakarta,
Indonesia
1967
Caribbean Community
CARICOM
Georgetown,
Guyana.
1973
Central
American Parliament
PARLACEN
Guatemala
City
1980
Common
Market of East and Southern Africa
COMESA
Lusaka,
Zambia
1994
Commonwealth of
Nations   (British Commonwealth)
–
London,
United Kingdom
1926
 Commonwealth
of Independent States (Russian Commonwealth)
CIS
Moscow,Russian
1991
Council of Europe
CoE
Strasbourg,
France
1949
East African
Community
EAC
Arusha
1967
Economic
Community of West African States
ECOWAS
Abuja,
Nigeria
1975
European
Free Trade Association
EFTA
Geneva,
Switzerland
1960
Gulf Cooperation
Council
GCC
Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
1981
Indian Ocean
Commission 
IOC
Port Louis,
Mauritius
1982
Non-Aligned Movement
NAM
New York
City, USA
1961
Nordic Council
–
Copenhagen,
Denmark
1952
Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development
OECD
Paris, France
1948
Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSCE
Vienna,
Austria
1973
Organization
of American States
OAS
Washington,
D.C.
1948
Organisation
of Eastern Caribbean States
OECS
Castries,
Saint Lucia
1981
Organisation
of Islamic Cooperation
OIC
 Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia
1969
Secretariat
of the Pacific Community
SPC
Nouméa
1947
Pacific Islands
Forum
 –
Suva, Fiji
1971
South
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SAARC
Kathmandu,
Nepal
1985
Southern
African Development Community
SADC
Gaborone,
Botswana
1992
Union of
South American Nations
USAN
Quito,
Ecuador
2004
Unrepresented
Nations and Peoples Organization
UNPO
 The
Hague, Netherlands
1991
World Trade
Organization
WTO
Geneva,
Switzerland
1995
Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP
Bangkok,
Thailand
1947
Military
Organizations
Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NATO
Brussels,
Belgium
1949
European
Security and Defence Policy
ESDP
Paris
Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation
SCO
Beijing,
China
1996
Collective
Security Treaty Organization
CSTO
 Moscow,
Russia
1992
Peace and
Security Council
PSC
Addis Ababa
Financial
Organizations
Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
World Bank
–
Washington
D.C., United States
1944
African
Development Bank
AfDB
Abidjan,
Ivory Coast(statutory) & Tunis, Tunisia (temporary)
1963
Asian Development
Bank
ADB
Metro Manila,
Philippines
1966
European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EBRD
London
1991
Inter-American
Development Bank
 IDB
Washington,
D.C.
1959
International
Monetary Fund
IMF
Washington,
D.C
1945
Islamic
Development Bank
IDB
Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia
1973
International
Monetary Fund
IMF
Washington,
D.C., United States
1945
International
Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD
Rome, Italy
1977
Bank
for International Settlements
BIS
Basel,
Switzerland
1930
Black
Sea Trade and Development Bank
BSTDB
Thessaloniki,
Greece
1997
Caribbean
Development Bank 
CDB
Bridgetown,
Barbados
1969
Nordic
Development Fund
NDF
Helsinki,
Finland.
1989
Nordic Investment
Bank 
NIB
Helsinki,
Finland.
1970
European
Central Bank
ECB
Frankfurt,
Germany
1998
Sports
Federations
Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
Asian
Football Confederation
AFC
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
1954
Confederation
of African Football
CAF
 6th of
October City, Egypt.
1957
Confederation of North, Central
American and Caribbean Association Football
CONCACAF
Miami,
Florida, U.S.
1961
South American Football
Confederation
CONMEBOL
Luque,
Paraguay
1916
Oceania
Football Confederation
OFC
Auckland, New
zealand
1966
Union of European Football
Associations
UEFA
Nyon,
Switzerland
1954
World Chess Federation(Fédération
Internationale des Échecs )
FIDE
Athens,
Greece
1924
International Federation of
Association Football(Fédération Internationale de Football Association)
FIFA
Zürich,
Switzerland
1904
International Cricket Council
ICC
Dubai, United
Arab Emirates
1909
International
Olympic Committee
IOC
Lausanne,
Switzerland
1894
International
Paralympic Committee
IPC
Bonn, Germany
1989
World Rugby(International
Rugby Football Board)
IRFB
Dublin, Ireland
1886
Commonwealth Games Federation
CGF
London,
United Kingdom
1930
International
Tennis Federation
ITF
London, 
UK
1913
Badminton
World Federation
BWF
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
1934
International Hockey Federation
FIH
Lausanne,
Switzerland
1924
Scientific Organizations :
Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
European Space
Agency
ESA
Paris,France
1975
Indian
Space Research Organisation
ISRO
Bangalore,
India
1969
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
NASA
Washington,
D.C. , USA
1958
United Kingdom Space
Agency
UKSA
 Swindon,
Wiltshire
2010
China
National Space Administration
CNSA
Beijing,
China
1993
Russian
Federal Space Agency 
Roscosmos
Moscow,
Russia
1992
French Space Agency
CNES
Paris, France
1961
Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency
JAXA
Tokyo, Japan
2003
German Aerospace
Center
DLR
Cologne
1969
Italian Space Agency
ASI
Rome, Italy
1988
Other
Important Organization :
Organizations
Name
Abbreviation
Headquarters
Formation
Colombo Plan
–
Colombo, Sri
Lanka
1950
Antarctic Treaty System
ATS
Washington,
D.C., USA
1959
Intergovernmental
Authority on Development
IGAD
Djibouti City
1986
International
Committee of the Red Cross
ICRC
Geneva,
Switzerland
1863
International
Court of Justice
ICJ
The Hague,
Netherlands
1945
International
Criminal Court 
ICC
The Hague,
Netherlands
1998
International Criminal Police
Organization
INTERPOL
Lyon, France
1923
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
IFRC
Geneva,
Switzerland
1919
International
Organization for Migration 
IOM
Geneva,
Switzerland
1951
International
Centre for Migration Policy Development
ICMPD
Vienna,
Austria
1993
Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPCW
The Hague,
Netherlands
1997
Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries
OPEC
Vienna,
Austria
1960
World Toilet
Organization
WTO
Singapore
2001
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