The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency with 150 field offices worldwide and six regional offices, its headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland. The first meeting of the WHO was held on July 24, 1948, following its establishment on April 7, 1948. It combined the resources, staff, and responsibilities of the Paris-based Office International d'Hygiène Publique and the Health Organization of the League of Nations, including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). In 1951 the agency's operations picked up steam following a sizable infusion of funding and expertise.
Topic: Ensuring Health Equity, with special emphasis on Global Disparities in Access to Healthcare.
The General Assembly, which was founded in 1945 under the UN Charter, holds a pivotal role as the organization's principal policy-making, deliberative, and representative body. It offers a singular forum for multilateral discussion of the entire range of international issues covered by the Charter and is made up of all 193 Members of the UN. It is also essential to the process of codifying international law and creating standards.
Topic: The situation in the Middle East with emphasis on the situation in Gaza.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a prominent United Nations financial agency and a global financial institution supported by 190 member nations. It is recognized as the international lender of last resort for national governments and as one of the main forces behind stable exchange rates. Established on December 27, 1945, It claims to be "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." The IMF headquarters is located in Washington, D.C.
Topic: The impact of financial crime on global economic stability with emphasis on its drastic effects in developing countries
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; English: International Automobile Federation) is an organization that was founded on June 20, 1904, to represent the interests of motor vehicle owners and organizations. It oversees several auto racing competitions, including Formula One. The FIA additionally advocates for global road safety. The global headquarters is located at 8 Place de la Concorde in Paris and offices in Geneva and Valleiry, the FIA is made up of 243 member organizations spread across 147 nations. Its current president is Mohammed bin Sulayem. Even in non-French-speaking nations, the FIA is commonly referred to by its French name or initials, though the International Automobile Federation is sometimes used instead.
Topic: The Impact of R&D Regulations of the FIA on motorsports, with special emphasis on its significance in the Automobile Industry
In the years following the end of the Second World War, the separation of the world into Communist and Capitalist blocs ushered in a new era of the Cold War. While to date it remains a point of controversy that it was the politics that drove the “space race”, it cannot be denied that a significant leap to mankind resulted out of the “race”. The committee was founded on 13 December 1958 by the General Assembly as an ad hoc committee to report to the Assembly about the activities and resources of the UN, its specialized agencies, and other international bodies relating to the peaceful uses of outer space. The committee was created after the launching of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957, then the United Nations had an interest in the peaceful uses of outer space. In the beginning, the committee had 18 members, after becoming a permanent body by the General Assembly on 12 December 1959 the membership increased to 24. It retained the same mission as its predecessor – to review international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. Today COPOUS has 102 members strengthening the purposes in the protection of outer space.
Topic: The commercialization, privatization, and potential resource exploitation of space
