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United Nations Industrial Development Organization

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), specialized agency of the United Nations. Headquartered in Vienna, it was organized in 1966 and made a specialized UN agency in 1985. UNIDO'...

United Nations Secretaries-General (table)

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Secretaries-General ...

League of Nations

(Encyclopedia)League of Nations, former international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I. Like its successor, the United Nations, its purpose was the promotion of international p...

Five Nations

(Encyclopedia)Five Nations: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

Six Nations

(Encyclopedia)Six Nations: see Iroquois Confederacy. ...

United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments: see United Nations. ...

United Nations Economic and Social Council

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Economic and Social Council: see Economic and Social Council. ...

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference: see Bretton Woods Conference. ...

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), organization founded (1943) during World War II to give aid to areas liberated from the Axis powers. There were finally 52 participatin...

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or Earth Summit, an 11-day meeting held in June, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss the global conflict between economic devel...