Check your awareness about international organizations and headquarters!
International organizations spanning across the globe with their scope and presence, hold a significant place in world affairs. These organizations make mass impacts on countries, laws and even global prices from time to time. While Amnesty International is concerned with global peacekeeping, OPEC maintains stability in global demand and supply of oil. Therefore, these organizations take care of a wide range of issues that transcend global boundaries and local laws. While reading a newspaper daily you must have gone through many of them, as they are always mentioned in some or the others news piece. This article provides you with a list of important International Organizations and their Headquarters so read and go through them thoroughly. This topic is important for the perspective of RBI, IBPS/SBI IBPS, Clerical, LIC, Railways, etc.
List of International Organizations and Head Quarters
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Beijing, China
- New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank) – Shanghai, China
- Asian Development Bank – Manila, Philippines
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Washington DC, US
- World Bank – Washington DC, US
- United Nations Organization (UN) – New York, US
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – New York, US
- United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) – New York, US
- United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Health Organization (WHO) – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Economic Forum – Geneva, Switzerland
- International Labor Organization – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Trade Organization – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Meteorological Organization – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Intellectual Property Organization – Geneva, Switzerland
- International Committee of the Red Cross – Geneva, Switzerland
- United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Paris, France
- Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) – Paris, France
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) – Vienna, Austria
- International Atomic Agency – Vienna, Austria
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – Vienna, Austria
- Amnesty International – London, UK
- International Maritime Organization – London, UK
- Commonwealth of Nations – London, UK
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)- Brussels, Belgium
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) – Kathmandu, Nepal
- Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) -Jakarta, Indonesia
- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) – Singapore
- International Cricket Council (ICC) – Dubai, UAE
- Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) – Rome, Italy
- International Court of Justice – The Hague, The Netherland
- International Olympic Committee – Lausanne, Switzerland
- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – The Hague, The Netherlands
- The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)– Zurich, Switzerland
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Avenue du Mont-Blanc, Gland, Vaud, Switzerland
