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General Org Information
 
Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II UIA Org ID

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

OCHA 1992 New York NY USA E g XE3242

United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

UN-OHRLLS 2001 New York NY USA E g XM0663

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNODC 1997 Vienna Austria E g XE3574

United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect

E g AA1000

United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

PBC 2005 New York NY USA E gy XM0878

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

UNPFII 2000 New York NY USA E g XE4327

United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law

1965 New York NY USA E g XF0919

United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament for Asia and the Pacific

UNRCPD 1987 Kathmandu Nepal E g XE0897

United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

UNREC 1986 Lomé Togo E g XE0621

United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

UNLIREC 1987 Lima Peru E g XE1055

United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia

UNRCCA 2007 Ashgabat Turkmenistan E g XM6341

United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office

RCNYO 1981 New York NY USA E g XE4065

United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe

UNRIC 2004 Brussels Belgium E g XE4669

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNRWA 1949 Amman Jordan E g XE1325

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

UNRISD 1963 Geneva Switzerland E gjv XE3388

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

UNSCEAR 1955 Vienna Austria E g XE5946

United Nations Security Council

UNSC 1945 New York NY USA E g XE3376

United Nations Security Council Military Staff Committee

MSC 1946 New York NY USA E g XE0146

United Nations Special Committee on Peace-keeping Operations

1965 New York NY USA E gy XE1131

United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

1968 Geneva Switzerland E g XE0585

United Nations Staff Mutual Insurance Society Against Sickness and Accident

UNSMIS 1949 Geneva Switzerland E XE1981

United Nations Staff Union

1946 New York NY USA E v XE0225

United Nations Staff Union, Vienna

1980 Vienna Austria E v XE0806

United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

UNSAC 1992 New York NY USA E g XE1885

United Nations Statistical Commission

1946 New York NY USA E g XE1124

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