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Organisations based in Geneva
- International Organization for StandardizationThe International Organization for Standardization, known the world over simply as ISO, was founded on the 23rd of February 1947, and in the decades since it…
- League of NationsThe League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation built to keep the peace, and its founder won a Nobel Prize for it before failing…
- International Organization for MigrationThe International Organization for Migration was born in the wreckage of the Second World War, in a Europe where nearly a million people had nowhere to go.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent MovementOn the evening of the 24th of June 1859, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant arrived in the small Italian town of Solferino.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was born from an unusual political tension. In 1988, the Reagan administration worried that if independent…
- International Committee of the Red CrossThe International Committee of the Red Cross began with one man staring at a battlefield and making an unexpected choice.
- World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum holds its annual gathering in Davos, a mountain resort tucked into the eastern Alps of Switzerland, where around 3,000 paying…
- World Meteorological OrganizationThe World Meteorological Organization exists because weather has never respected borders. Rain clouds forming over one country deliver their consequences in…
- International Committee on Intellectual CooperationThe International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation held its first session on the 1st of August 1922, with the philosopher Henri Bergson in the chair.
- International Union of Pure and Applied PhysicsThe year 1922 marked a turning point for global physics when thirteen nations gathered in Brussels to establish the International Union of Pure and Applied…
- Building and Wood Workers' InternationalThe Building and Wood Workers' International speaks for more than 12 million workers across 135 countries. That is a vast constituency, spread across…