International Organisation Quiz

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, the sciences, and culture. The headquarters of UNESCO is located in Paris.

The Security Council has five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — collectively known as the P5. It has also ten non-permanent members which are elected for two-year terms.

IMF (established in 1944), WHO (established in 1948), ILO (established in 1919) and FAO (established in 1945) are United Nations agencies.

The central region (Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) of the Americas has the highest concentration of World Heritage Sites on the list of UNESCO. There are 1154 sites on the list of the UNESCO in world. Out of these 545 (47.23%) are from Europe and North America.

India is a founding member of the United Nations. On June 26, 1945, India was among 50 countries to sign the UN charter. India joined the United Nations after ratifying the UN Charter on October 30, 1945.

The World Bank was established in 1944 to help rebuild Europe and Japan after World War II. Its official name was the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). It is headquartered in Washington DC which is the lending arm of the World Bank Group.

Created in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international institution that oversees the global trade rules among nations. It superseded the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) created in the wake of World War II.

United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the coordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) at the inter-secretariat level. Although the WTO is not an UN-specialized agency, it has maintained strong relations with the UN and its agencies since its establishment.

The Security Council is a body of 15 members, five of which are permanent and have veto power: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China. The ten elected or non-permanent members have a tenure of two years.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957. The IAEA Secretariat is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.