Контрольна робота з англійської мови "Людина і суспільство" (2 курс)

1) The United Nations (UN)

a) is an international organization that facilitates  worldwide police cooperation and crime control.  Headquartered in Lyon, it has seven regional bureaus  worldwide and a National Central Bureau in all 194  member states, making it the world's largest police  organization.

2) The Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE)

b) is an international organisation founded in the wake  of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy  and the rule of law in Europe.Founded in 1949, it has  47 member states, with a population of approximately  820 million, and operates with an annual budget of  approximately 500 million euros.

3) The Bank for International Settlements  (BIS)

c) is an international financial institution owned by  central banks that "fosters international monetary and  financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central  banks".

4) The Council of Europe (CoE)

d) is the world's largest security 

oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate  includes issues such as arms control, promotion  of human rights, freedom of the press, and fair  elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in  its field operations but also in its secretariat  in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has its  origins in the 1975 Conference on Security and Co operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland.

5) The International Labour  

Organization (ILO)

e) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to  advance social and economic justice through  setting international labour standards. Founded in  1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and  oldest specialised agency of the UN. The ILO has 187  member states: 186 out of 193 UN member states plus  the Cook Islands. It is headquartered in Geneva,  Switzerland, with around 40 field offices around the  world, and employs some 2,700 staff from over 150  nations, of whom 900 work in technical cooperation  programmes and projects.

6) The International Criminal Police  Organization (INTERPOL)

f) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to  maintain international peace and security, develop  friendly relations among nations, achieve international  cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the  actions of nations. It is the largest, most familiar, most  internationally represented and most powerful  intergovernmental organization in the world. The is  headquartered on international territory in New York  City, with its other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi,  Vienna and The Hague.