Curated playlist
Organisations based in Geneva
- International Organization for StandardizationThe letters ISO may not come from the Greek word for equal. Nobody apparently cited it at the 1946 founding meetings.
- League of NationsThe League of Nations was meant to enforce peace, yet it had no army. At its peak it had 58 member states.
- International Organization for MigrationThe International Organization for Migration began in 1951 as a temporary agency.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent MovementA Swiss businessman came to Solferino on business and walked into a battle's aftermath.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe IPCC runs no laboratories and does no original research. Volunteers read published work and agree on it.
- International Committee of the Red CrossRed Cross inspirer Henry Dunant was expelled from its committee, then shared the first Nobel Peace Prize.
- World Economic ForumAt the World Economic Forum in 1988, Greece and Turkey signed an agreement that pulled them back from war.
- YMCAThe YMCA, formerly the Young Men's Christian Association, began on the 6th of June 1844 when a London draper named George Williams met with eleven friends. Many people know its four letters from a 1978 song by Village People. Far fewer…
- CERNCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, runs the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Its biggest machine asks engineers to do something that sounds impossible. Stephen Myers, the director for accelerators and…
- World Meteorological OrganizationThe World Meteorological Organization began as a gathering of scientists, not governments.
- International Committee on Intellectual CooperationAlbert Einstein resigned from a League of Nations committee, then rejoined within a year.
- International Union of Pure and Applied PhysicsIn 1922, physicists in Brussels declared a world physics union imperative. Its home is Geneva.
- Building and Wood Workers' InternationalIn October 2024, a global union of building workers complained to FIFA about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia.