INTERNA
nONAL
ORGANIZA
nONS
Guinea, France, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti , Laos, Lebanon, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali , Mauritius, Mauritania, Moldova, Monaco,
Morocco, Niger, Romania, Rwanda, St Lucia, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia,
Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
Headquarters: 28 rue de Bourgogne, 75008 Paris, France.
Website: http ://www.francophonie.org
Secretary General: Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt).
INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION
FOR
STANDARDIZATION
(ISO)
Established
in
1947, the International Organization for Standardi zation is a non-
governmental federation
of
national standards bodies from some 140 countries
worldwide, one from each country. ISO's work results
in
international agreements
which are published
as
International Standards. The first ISO standard was
published
in
1951
with the title 'Standard reference temperature for industrial length
measurement' .
Some 13,000 ISO International Standards are available on subjects
in
such diverse
fields
as
information technology, textiles, packaging, distribution
of
goods, energy
production and utilization, building, banking and financial services. ISO
standardization activities include the widely recognized ISO 9000 family
of
quality
management system and standards and the ISO 14000 series
of
environmental
management system standards. Standardization programmes are now being
developed
in
completely new fields , such
as
advanced materials, life sciences,
urbanization and the service sector.
Mission. To promote the development
of
standardization and related activities
in
the
world with a view
to
facilitating the international exchange
of
goods and services,
and to developing co-operation
in
the spheres
of
intellectual, scientific,
technological and economic activity.
Headquarters: 1 rue
de
Varembe, Case postale 56, CH-1211 Geneva 20,
Switzerland.
Website: http://www.iso.ch
e-mail: central @iso.ch
Secretary-General: Dr Lawrence
D.
Eicher.
WORLD
WIDE
FUND
FOR
NATURE
(WWF)
Origin. WWF was officially formed and registered
as
a charity on
II
Sept. 1961.
The first National Appeal, with HRH The Duke
of
Edinburgh as President, was
launched
in
the United Kingdom on
23
Nov. 1961, shortly followed by the United
States and Switzerland.
Organization. WWF is the world ' s largest and most experienced independent
conservation organization with over 4·7m. supporters and a global network
of
27
National Organizations, 5 Associates and 24 Programme Offices.
The National Organi zations carry out conservation activities
in
their own
countries and contribute technical expertise and funding
to
WWF's international
conservation programme. The Programme Offices implement WWF ' s fieldwork,
advise national and local governments, and raise public understanding
of
conservation issues.
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