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| x International Telecommunication Union |
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United Nations |
The International Telecommunication Union is the eldest organization in the UN family still in existence. It was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris on 17 May 1865 and is today the leading United Nations agency for information and...
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| x ITU-R | International Telecommunication Union |
The ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for radio communication.
Its role is to manage the international radio-frequency...
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| x ITU-D | International Telecommunication Union |
ITU-D, the Telecommunications Development Sector of the ITU, is responsible for creating policies, regulation and providing training programs and financial strategies in developing countries.
Created in 1992, its secretariat is the Bureau de...
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| x United Nations |
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Earth |
The United Nations Organization (UNO) or simply United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights,...
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| x Creative Commons |
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Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released...
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| x Eugenics Society |
The Galton Institute is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are 'to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology'.
It...
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| x Association for Voluntary Sterilization | |||||
| x Long Now Foundation |
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The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a private organization that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote ...
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| x Public Policy Center of Mississippi |
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| x Battelle Memorial Institute |
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The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Battelle is a charitable trust organized as a non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio and...
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| x American Literary Translators Association |
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is an association of literary translators in the United States.
ALTA is affiliated with the International Federation of Translators (FIT).
ALTA was founded in 1978.
Among other activities, ALTA...
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| x BlogHer |
BlogHer refers to a group blog and online community, and to an annual blogging conference for women. Three of the 2005 conference organizers, Elisa Camahort, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone, began a company, Blogher LLC, which in 2006 also began a...
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| x Aspen Institute |
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Today, the organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values,...
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| x Treatment Action Campaign |
The Treatment Action Campaign is a South African AIDS activist organization which was founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. It is unique for combining the issue-specific targeted direct action tactics of North American AIDS...
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| x Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals | |||||
| x Suomen Journalistiliitto | |||||
| x Suomen freelance-journalistit ry | Suomen Journalistiliitto | ||||
| x Suomen Microsoft osaajakumppaneiden yhdistys ry | |||||
| x Sea Education Association | |||||
| x Kerch Marine Technological Institute | |||||
| x Portuguese Navy |
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The Portuguese Navy (Portuguese: Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the...
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| x Tall Ships Youth Trust |
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Sailing |
Tall Ships Youth Trust is a sail training organisation in the United Kingdom that currently owns and operates a two mast brig, the Stavros S Niarchos, and four 22m/72ft Challenger class racing yachts.
The Tall Ships Youth Trust, formerly the Sail...
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| x Sea Cadet Corps |
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Sailing |
The Sea Cadet Corps (SCC) forms the UK's largest Naval Cadet Force with over 30,000 cadets and adult volunteers. The SCC is a nationwide voluntary youth organisation; open to young people aged 12 to 18. Junior Sea Cadet sections, are open to young...
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| x Argentine Navy |
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The Navy of the Argentine Republic or Armada of the Argentine Republic (Spanish: Armada de la República Argentina — ARA) is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with the Army and the Air...
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| x Spanish Navy |
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The Spanish Navy (in Spanish, Armada Española) is the maritime arm of the Spanish Military, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of America, the...
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| x Znanost.org |
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Croatia |
Society znanost.org is a NGO operating mainly in Croatia. Its main focus is in promoting education, science and knowledge-based values. The word znanost in Croatian means "science".
znanost.org was founded in February 2002 by a group of a recent...
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| x American Musicological Society |
The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music...
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| x Society for American Music |
The Society for American Music (SAM) was founded in 1975 and was first named the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library of Congress and pioneer scholar of American music. The...
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| x Music of the United States of America | |||||
| x Linux Users of Victoria |
Linux Users of Victoria ("LUV") is a Linux User Group ("LUG") based in the state of Victoria, Australia.
One of the largest and oldest Linux User Groups in Australia, it was incorporated in 1993 as a not for profit group. It now has over fifteen...
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| x Bangalore Linux User Group |
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The Bangalore Linux Users Group is a Free and Open Source Software user group.
Formed in 1998, it jumped into the public eye with its participation at Bangalore IT.COM '99 - then India's largest and most prominent technology event. The Government of...
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| x Hellenic Linux User Group |
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Hellenic Linux User Group or Hellug (Hel.L.U.G.) is the main Linux User Group in Greece. It is a non-profit organization founded by people who are interested, use or are positive towards Linux. Hellug's target is the union, communication, the...
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| x Silicon Valley Linux User Group |
Silicon Valley Linux User Group (SVLUG) is a group that played a great role in helping raise awareness of Linux in early days of Linux in San Jose, California.
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| x YHA |
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The Youth Hostels Association (YHA) is a member of Hostelling International, an international federation of hostel associations. YHA and Hostelling International hostels form the world’s first and largest budget accommodation network. The not-for...
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| x International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
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The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide which started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent...
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| x International Committee of the Red Cross |
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given...
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| x American Red Cross |
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement | Charitable organization |
The American Red Cross (also known as the American National Red Cross) is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States, and is the designated U.S. affiliate of the...
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| x British Red Cross |
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom branch of the worldwide impartial humanitarian organisation the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with over 31,000...
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| x Canadian Red Cross | International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization and one of 186 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
It was established in the fall of 1896 as an affiliate of the British Red Cross Society (then known as...
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| x Australian Red Cross |
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement |
The Australian Red Cross is one of the many national Red Cross societies around the world. The Australian organization was established in 1914, nine days after the commencement of World War I, by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, the wife of the Governor...
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| x Houston Grand Opera |
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Houston Grand Opera (HGO) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing. With a current operating budget of $20 million, the company is based in downtown...
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| x Flat Earth Society |
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The Flat Earth Society (also known as the International Flat Earth Society or the International Flat Earth Research Society) is an organization that seeks to further the belief that the Earth is flat rather than a sphere. The modern organization was...
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| x YMCA |
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The Young Men's Christian Association ("YMCA" or "the Y") is a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs. Founded on June 6, 1844 in London, England by George...
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| x Family Service Agency of San Francisco |
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Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA) was founded in 1889 as Associated Charities by Katharine Felton (1873-1940). FSASF is the oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco. It...
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| x Freebase User Group | Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
The Freebase User Group is a place to share projects, learn techniques and meet other Freebase enthusiasts. If you have a project to demo or a suggestion for a presentation you'd like somebody else to do, please post a note in the discussion.
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| x United Nations Children's Fund |
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United Nations General Assembly |
The United Nations Children's Fund (or unicef; pronounced /ˈjuː.nɨ.sɛf/) was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War...
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| x Mensa International |
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Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98 percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised intelligence test. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and...
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| x World Food Programme |
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United Nations |
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization.. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children. From its headquarters in...
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| x Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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United Nations |
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of...
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| x United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
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United Nations |
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR; established December 14, 1950) is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary...
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| x United Nations General Assembly |
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United Nations |
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA/GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation. Its powers are to oversee the budget of the United Nations, appoint the...
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| x International Maritime Organization |
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United Nations |
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), formerly known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), was established in Geneva in 1948, and came into force ten years later, meeting for the first time in 1959. The IMCO...
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| x United Nations Population Fund |
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United Nations |
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (the name was changed in 1987) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund. In 1971 it was placed under the...
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| x World Health Organization | United Nations |
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited...
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| x World Intellectual Property Organization |
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United Nations |
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world."
WIPO...
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| x United Nations Development Programme | United Nations General Assembly |
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in 166...
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| x United Nations Economic and Social Council |
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The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations is a group of UN member countries that assists the General Assembly in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development. ECOSOC has 54 members, all of whom are...
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| x United Nations Secretariat |
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United Nations |
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary-General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. It provides studies, information, and...
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| x United Nations Security Council |
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United Nations |
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of...
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