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International Center, Dallas International Center is a neighborhood of high-rise office and residential buildings in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas (USA). The land in the neighborhood is owned primarily by Harwood International, a development firm based in Dallas.
International Centre for Diffraction Data The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) maintains a database of powder diffraction patterns, the Powder Diffraction File (PDF), including the d-spacings (related to angle of diffraction) and relative intensities of observable diffraction peaks. Patterns may be experimentally determined, or computed based on crystal structure and Bragg's law.
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology The ICGEB was promoted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a centre of excellence for research and training in genetic engineering and biotechnology for the benefit of developing countries. The Centre, directed by Francisco E.
International Centre for Low Dose Radiation Research The International Centre for Low Dose Radiation Research (ICLDRR) was established at the University of Ottawa, in 1997, with national and international support. The ICLDRR assembles all published data and conducts analyses concerning the effects of low doses of radiation in man and in the environment.
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) is a mathematical research centre based in Edinburgh. According to its website, the Centre is "designed to bring together mathematicians and practitioners in science, industry and commerce for research workshops and other meetings.
International Centre for Prison Studies The International Centre for Prison Studies was established in the School of Law, King's College London, United Kingdom in April 1997. It was launched formally by the Right Hon Jack Straw, Home Secretary, in October 1997.
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an institution of the World Bank group, was founded in 1966 pursuant to the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the ICSID Convention or Washington Convention). As of May 2005, 155 countries had signed the ICSID Convention.
International Centre for Theatre Research The International Centre for Theatre Research sometimes also known as The International Centre for Theatre Creation was founded in 1970 by Peter Brook and Micheline Rozan. It is often abbreviated to the acronym CIRT as in French the group is called the Centre International de Researches Théâtrale.
International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government, UNESCO and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (both agencies of the United Nations) to foster advanced studies and research, especially in developing countries. While the name of the Centre reflects its beginnings, its activities today encompass most areas of physical sciences including applications.
International Centre for Trade Union Rights The International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) is "an organizing and campaigning body with the fundamental purpose of defending and improving the rights of trade unions and trade unionists throughout the world."
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) is an organisation based in Kenya which studies insect life in tropical countries, in particular how it affects human health and food security. The institution was established in 1970.
International Centre of Orthodox Trotskyism The International Centre of Orthodox Trotskyism (Centro Internacional del Trotskismo Ortodoxo in Spanish, or CITO) was a Trotskyist international grouping. It split from the International Workers League (Fourth International) in 1994, and claimed to follow in the tradition of Nahuel Moreno.
International Certificate of Competence An International Certificate of Competence (ICC) is a certificate issued by the RYA (UK Royal Yachting Association) on the authority of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). It enables owners of British registered yachts and vessels to use them in European waters, and proves to local authorities that the skipper has the required UK qualifications for skippering the vessel.
International Circle of Korean Linguistics The International Circle of Korean Linguistics is a scholarly organization dedicated to the promotion of awareness of, the dissemination of information about, and the facilitation of communication among those in the field of, Korean language and linguistics. It was founded on October 20 1975.
International Civil Aviation Organization The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.
International Class The designation International Class may be granted by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to classes of sail boat that offer a high standard of international competitive sailing and satisfy a number of criteria regarding the number of boats of that class, their international distribution, and the rules, administration and operation of that class's Class Association.
International Classification for Standards International Classification for Standards (ICS) is an international classification system for technical standards. It is designed to cover every economic sector and virtually every activity of the humankind where technical standards may be used.
International Classification of Diseases for Oncology The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) is a domain specific extension of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems for tumor diseases. This classification is widely used by cancer registries.
International Classification of Primary Care The International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) is a classification method for primary care encounter classification. It allows for the classification of the patient’s reason for encounter (RFE), the problems/diagnosis managed, primary care interventions, and the ordering of the data of the primary care session in an episode of care structure.
International Clearing Union The International Clearing Union (ICU) was one of the institutions proposed to be set up at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire by British economist John Maynard Keynes. Its aim was to have been regulation of currency exchange and the issue of a currency of last resort.
International Clothing Sizes There are many different systems of clothing measurement around the world. The proceeding tables illustrate how to convert between the different clothing measurement systems from different regions of the world.
International Clown Hall of Fame The International Clown Hall of Fame (ICHOF), located in West Allis, Wisconsin, is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of clown art and achievement. Represented by professional and amateur clown associations, it pays tribute to outstanding clown performers, operates a living museum of clowning with resident clown performers, conducts special events and maintains a national archive of clown artifacts and history.
International Club of DC The International Club of DC (ICDC) is Washington's largest organization for internationally-minded professionals who enjoy international cultural experiences as well as social, educational, charitable, and outdoor events. Club membership consists of over 20,000 individuals in Washington, DC from over 80 countries.
International Co-operative Alliance The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental Co-operative Federation (or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide). It was founded in 1895 as a result of actions by Edward Vansittart Neale and the Christian Socialists.
International Coach Federation Founded in 1995, the International Coach Federation (ICF) is the oldest and largest professional association of business coaches and personal coaches. ICF has over 11,000 members in 80 countries (44 percent of the ICF membership is located outside the United States, compared with only 15 percent in 1999).
International Coal Group International Coal Group, Inc. (also known as ICG) is a mining company in the United States that produces coal from 12 mining complexes in Northern and Central Appalachia (Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia) and from one complex in the Illinois Basin.
International Coalition for the Decade On 10 November 1998, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
International Coalition of Library Consortia The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) is an informal, self-organized group of primarily higher-education library consortia from around the world for the discussion of issues of common interest among the consortia members.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants. Its intent is that each taxonomic group ("taxon", plural "taxa") of plants has only one correct name, accepted worldwide.
International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation The International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (ICOC), also known as the Hague Code of Conduct, was established November 25 2002 as an arrangement to prevent the proliferation of ballistic missiles. Originally signed by 93 countries, this non-legally binding regime has grown to 124 members (April 2006).
International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes was established in 1981 by the general assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO). This Code, and a number of subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions, place restrictions on the marketing of breast milk substitutes, such as infant formula, to ensure that mothers are not discouraged from breastfeeding and that substitutes are used safely if needed.
International Code of Signals The International Code of Signals (INTERCO) is a signal code to be used by merchant and naval vessels to communicate important messages about the state of a vessel and the intent of its master or commander when there are language barriers. INTERCO signals can be sent by signal flag, blinker light, semaphore, Morse code, or by radio.
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is a set of rules in zoology that have one fundamental aim: to provide the maximum universality and continuity in the naming of all animals according to taxonomic judgment. The Code is meant to guide only the nomenclature of animals, while leaving the zoologists some degree of freedom in classifying new species and higher-level taxa.
International Collection Corporation International Collection Corporation (ICC for brevity) was established in 1985 by Charles Hendrickson, who started his career in debt collection in 1967. Law firms such as Romer, Brown, Miller, Murphy, and Tighe of Los Angeles were the few that Charles was employed.
International College and Graduate School The International College and Graduate School is a private, co-educational Christian college and seminary in Honolulu, Hawai'i and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, recognized by the United States Department of Education. Established in 1971 by James R.
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming ICALP, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming is organized annually by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and held in different locations around Europe. Its proceedings are published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
International Color Consortium The International Color Consortium was formed in 1993 by eight industry vendors in order to create a universal color management system that would function transparently across all operating systems and software packages.
International Colour Authority The International Colour Authority (ICA) is a private organization publishing forecasts about colour trends for the coming seasons, to be used by industry designers. It also awards a Seal of Approval that companies can use in their promotional materials if the colour ranges they use are appraised by the ICA.
International Cometary Explorer The International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft was originally known as International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) satellite, launched August 12, 1978. It, along with ISEE-1 and ISEE-2, were designed to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind.
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is an intergovernmental organisation responsible for the management and conservation of tunas and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas. The organization was established in 1969, at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and operates in English, French and Spanish.
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) is an international organisation consisting of 13 cooperating states (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine) and the European Union. Since its establishment in 1998, the ICPDR has grown into one of the largest and most active international bodies of river basin management expert in Europe.
International Commission of Control and Supervision During the Vietnam War, the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) was created to replace the International Commission for Supervision and Control (ICSC) following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords ("Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam") on 27 January 1973.
International Commission of Jurists The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organisation. The Commission itself is a standing group of 60 eminent jurists (judges and lawyers), including members of the senior judiciary in Australia, Canada, and South Africa and the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
International Commission of Science and Technology The Dominican Republic International AdvisoryCommission of Science & Technology - IACST (in Spanish Comisión Internacional Asesora de Ciencia y Tecnología- CIACT) is a government agencycreated by the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández in September 2004 by decree number 1133-04.
International Commission on Illumination The International Commission on Illumination (usually known as the CIE for its French-language name Commission internationale de l'Ă©clairage) is the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces.
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) was an ad hoc commission of participants from mostly North and South America which in 2001 worked to popularize the concept of humanitarian intervention and democracy-restoring intervention under the name of "Responsibility to protect."
International Commission on Peace and Food The International Commission on Peace and Food (ICPF) was formed in 1989 as a private non-governmental initiative to bring an end to the arms race and thereby redirect the monetary resources of the world for accelerating global economic development.
International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) is a standardization body set up in 1925 by the International Congress of Radiology. Its objective is to develop internationally acceptable recommendations for quantities and units of radiation and radioactivity, as well as associated measurement procedures and physical data.
International Commission on Radiological Protection The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is an advisory body providing recommendations and guidance on radiation protection; It was founded in 1928 by the International Society of Radiology (ISR) and was then called the ‘International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee’. Then it was restructured to better take account of uses of radiation outside the medical area, and given its present name, in 1950.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". It was founded in 1895 and currently comprises 28 members from 20 countries, primarily practicing zoological taxonomists.
International Committee for Weights and Measures The International Committee for Weights and Measures is the English name of the Comité international des poids et mesures (CIPM, sometimes written in English Comité International des Poids et Mesures). It consists of eighteen persons from Member States of the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention).
International Committee of the Blue Shield The International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) was founded in 1996 "to work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters". It has been described as the "Cultural Red Cross".
International Committee of the Fourth International The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a Trotskyist international. Its affiliated parties are called the Socialist Equality Party and have sections and supporters throughout the world.
International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. The ICRC has a unique authority based on the international humanitarian law of the Geneva Conventions to protect the victims of international and internal armed conflicts.
International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils The International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils (ICOMANTH) defines its mission as follows. "ICOMANTH is charged with defining appropriate classes in soil taxonomy for soils that have their major properties derived from human activities.
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is a committee which authorises and organises the taxonomic classification of viruses. They have developed a a universal taxonomic scheme for viruses and aim to describe all the viruses of living organisms.
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), popularly referred to as the Spartacist League and by its critics as "The Sparts", is a Trotskyist international organisation based primarily in the United States. The group originated within the Revolutionary Tendency of the Socialist Workers Party.
International Communist League (Vietnam) The International Communist League (LCI) was a Trotskyist political party in Vietnam. It was founded as the October Group in 1932, by a split in the Indochinese Bolshevik-Leninist Group, which also produced the Struggle Group.
International Communist Party The International Communist Party was a left communist international which was also described as a Bordigist party. The strongest base of the party was Italy, in which, at one point, they had more than 50,000 members.
International Community of Socialist Youth Organisations International Community of Socialist Youth Organisations (in German: Internationale Gemeinschaft der Sozialistischen Jugendorganisationen) was an international union of socialist youth organizations. It was founded in February 1921.
International Community of St John the Divine The International Community of St John the Divine is a not for profit interfaith community founded in 1993 in Bournemouth UK. Comprising (at date of writing) over 400 independent clergy in every continent on the globe.
International Community School (Ethiopia) International Community School of Addis Ababa (ICS), founded in 1966, is an independent, co-educational school that teaches students of all nationalities in Kindergarten through 12th grade and is located in the capital city of Ethiopia.
International Community School (Singapore) International Community School is a Christian school in Clementi, Singapore which uses an American curriculum. So far, the school has slightly more than 300 students, attending preschool to pre-university classes.
International Community School (Thailand) International Community School (ICS) is a Christian-based school, teaching kindergarten-12th grade in Bangkok, Thailand. Its mission statement is, "Based on the Bible, in partnership with parents, we teach the whole student to know and apply wisdom for the good of our world and the glory of God.
International Community School (USA) International Community School (ICS) is a small 7-12th grade school in the Lake Washington School District. It is called a choice school because its students have made a choice to attend ICS instead of other schools.
International Comparative Literature Association The International Comparative Literature Association - ICLR) (French Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée - AILC) founded in 1954 is an international organization for international research in the field of comparative literature.
International Components for Unicode International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization and software globalization. ICU is widely portable to many operating systems and environments.
International Computer Games Association The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) was founded as the International Computer Chess Association (ICCA) in 1977 by computer chess programmers to organise championship events for computer programs and to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge via the ICCA Journal.
International Computer Music Conference The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
International Computer Science Institute The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is a non-profit research lab located in Berkeley, California, USA, and is affiliated with UC Berkeley. ICSI has particular strengths networking research, algorithms, and speech processing.
International Computers and Tabulators International Computers and Tabulators or ICT was formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and Powers-Samas. In 1963 it also added the business computer divisions of Ferranti.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on December 7, 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on October 31, 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) to form the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions/Summary The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) is the largest international trade union confederation in the world. It claims 157 million members in 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries and territiories.
International Confederation of Midwives The International Confederation of Midwives, or ICM, supports and advises associations of midwives. The ICM is an accredited non-governmental organization and works closely with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNFPA, and other organisations worldwide to achieve common goals in the care of mothers and children.
International Confederation of Principals The International Confederation of Principals (ICP) is a global association of school leadership organisations. Founded in 1991, the ICP operates through a council with up to three delegates from each member organisation.
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), coordinates the activities of its member performing right societies. CISAC was formed during 1926 in Paris, France where the first national performing right society had been formed in 1850.
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter) International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, a grouping of parties and organizations adhering to Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. The ICMLPO is organized by a Joint Coordination Group.
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) is an international network of Communist parties that uphold the line of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour. As such, it is staunchly anti-revisionist.
International Conference of Reformed Churches The International Conference of Reformed Churches is a federation of Reformed or Calvinist churches across the world. Its theology is more conservative than the larger World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Reformed Ecumenical Council (which are in the process of uniting as the World Reformed Communion) and is similar to that of the World Reformed Fellowship.
International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists was held between November 24 and December 21, 1898 following the assaination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Luigi Lucheni on the promenade of Lake Geneva on September 10, 1898. 54 delegates attended from 21 different countries.
International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX) is an annual international academic conference that deals with all aspects of automated reasoning with analytic tableaux. Periodically, it joins with CADE and TPHOLs into the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR).
International Conference on Communications The International Conference on Communications (ICC) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The conference grew out of the Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) when, in 1965, the seventh GLOBECOM was sponsored by the Communications Society's predecessor as the "IEEE Communications Convention".
International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics are congresses held every few years on the subject of Differential geometric methods in Theoretical physics. Lectures, seminars, and discussions are held in different universities throughout the world, every few years, and a book compilation is published thereafter consisting of the papers submitted and discussed at the conference.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee.
International Conference on Functional Programming The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) is an annual academic conference in the field of computer science sponsored by the ACM SIGPLAN. The conference focuses on functional programming and related areas of programming languages, logic, compilers and software development.
International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use The International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) is a project that brings together the regulatory authorities of Europe, Japan and the United States and experts from the pharmaceutical industry in the three regions to discuss scientific and technical aspects of pharmaceutical product registration.
International Conference on Information Systems International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is an annual international conference for academics and research-oriented practitioners in the area of Information Systems. Previously known as the Conference on Information Systems (CIS), ICIS is the flagship conference of Association for Information Systems, an international professional organization serving academics in Information Systems.
International Conference on Population and Development The United Nations coordinated an International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt from 5-13 September 1994. Its resulting Programme of Action is the steering document for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
International Conference on Visual Information Engineering The International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE) conference series is a successor to IEE's (Institution of Electrical Engineers) IPA conference series on Image Processing and its Applications. These are broad spectrum conferences covering all aspects of image processing, computer vision, visual communication and computer graphics.
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust was a two-day conference that opened on December 11, 2006 in Tehran, Iran. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said the conference sought "neither to deny nor prove the Holocaust ...
International Congress Calendar The International Congress Calendar is a calendar published since 1960 by the Union of International Associations (UIA). Previously published as a printed quarterly publication, since 2004 provided online here.
International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences The International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences is a bi-annual conference discussing topics of heraldic and genealogical interest. The Congress brings together scholars and other interested parties from all the nations of Europe and from many countries around the world.
International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha The International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages is an historic event. It is a meeting of internationally recognized Buddhist scholars specializing in monastic discipline and history, as well as practioners.
International Container Bureau The International Container Bureau is usually better know under its acronym BIC for Bureau International des conteneurs, its original French name. It is an organisation whose goal is to unite any type of corporation or government unit or independent organism having anything to do with container transport and multi modal freight handling.
International Contemporary Art Scenes International Contemporary Art is largely international in its activities and attributes. There are, however national differences in terminology and emphases, and each country has its own history, key venues and active artists.
International Contemporary Ensemble The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a contemporary classical music ensemble comprised of a group of thirty chamber musicians, including strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion, voice and composers, which enables great flexibility of programming. ICE performs works scored for ensembles from solos and duos to chamber orchestra, as well as multi-media works, works utilizing extended techniques and non-western instruments, and improvisatory and electro-acoustic works.
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program is a multinational program to further and fund geosciences in the field of Continental Scientific Drilling. Scientific drilling is a critical tool in understanding of Earth processes and structure.
International Control Commission The International Control Commission (ICC), formally called the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam (ICSC), was the international force established in 1954 that oversaw the implementation of the Geneva Accords that ended the First Indochina War with the Partition of Vietnam. It reported on the progress of the ceasefires and any violations against them.
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international agreement (see environmental agreement) signed in 1946 designed to make whaling sustainable. It governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal subsistence whaling practices of fifty-nine member nations.
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is the most important treaty protecting the safety of merchant ships. The first version of the treaty was passed in 1914 in response to the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

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