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International GNSS Service
The International GNSS Service (IGS) is a voluntary federation that collects satellite navigation data from a global network of over 400 ground stations and publishes high-precision products such as orbits and clocks.
International Go Federation
The International Go Federation (IGF) is the international federation for the board game go, also known as weiqi or baduk. Founded in 1982, it is headquartered in Tokyo and organizes the World Amateur Go Championship.
International golf federation
International Golf Federation (IGF), founded 1958 as the World Amateur Golf Council, renamed 2003; Lausanne-based Olympic and Paralympic federation for golf, running the Eisenhower and Espirito Santo Trophy championships and Olympic golf.
International Gothic
International Gothic, also called the Beautiful Style, is a courtly European style of painting, illumination, and sculpture from about 1375 to 1450, practiced at courts in France, Italy, and Bohemia.
International Grains Council
The International Grains Council, formerly the International Wheat Council, is a London-based intergovernmental organization that administers the Grains Trade Convention 1995 and publishes grain market information.
International handball federation
International Handball Federation (IHF), world governing body for handball and beach handball, founded 1946 in Copenhagen, headquartered in Basel, 211 member federations, six confederations, president Hassan Moustafa since 2000.
International harmonization of veterinary medicine regulation beyond VICH
Harmonization of veterinary medicine regulation beyond VICH covers mutual recognition, reliance, and work-sharing, including the East African Community's fixed-timeline procedure, WAEMU's centralized regional marketing authorization, and a proposed Pan-African regulators' network.
International Harvester
International Harvester was an American manufacturer of agricultural machinery, trucks, and construction equipment, formed in Chicago in 1902; after a ruinous 1979 strike it was renamed Navistar in 1986.
International Harvester IDI
The International Harvester IDI is a family of naturally aspirated 6.9L and 7.3L diesel V-8 engines that powered Ford trucks from 1983 to 1994, preceding the 7.3L Power Stroke.
International health
International health: a public health term for cross-border health work, now overlapping with global health; also the RSTMH peer-reviewed journal International Health (ISSN 1876-3413, founded 2009) and the WHO's International Health Regulations framework.
International Hockey Federation
International Hockey Federation (FIH, Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon), world governing body for field hockey, founded 7 January 1924 in Paris by Paul Léautey; Lausanne-based Swiss association with 5 Continental Federations and 146 national members; distinct from FIH Group plc.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as International Holocaust Memorial Day, is a United Nations day of commemoration held on 27 January, the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
International Honor Quilt
International Honor Quilt (IHQ), also called International Quilting Bee: a 1980 feminist art project by Judy Chicago of 542 triangular quilt panels honoring women, made by 750 makers from 12 countries, held at the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute since 2013.
International Hot Rod Association
The International Hot Rod Association is an American drag racing sanctioning body founded by Larry Carrier in 1970, centered on grassroots sportsman racing at member tracks.
International human rights law
International human rights law: the body of treaties, custom, and UN and regional institutions, built on the 1948 Universal Declaration and the ICCPR and ICESCR Covenants, imposing respect, protect, and fulfil obligations on States and monitored by ten treaty bodies.
International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) is a permanent treaty body, established in 1991 under Article 90 of Additional Protocol I, that investigates serious violations of international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law
International humanitarian law (IHL), also called the law of armed conflict or law of war, is the branch of international law protecting civilians, wounded, and prisoners in wartime and restricting weapons and methods, built on the 1949 Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols, and customary rules.
International Hydrographic Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), or Organisation hydrographique internationale, is an intergovernmental body with 98 member states that sets worldwide standards for hydrographic data and navigation charts.
International Hydrological Decade
The International Hydrological Decade was a ten-year UNESCO program on water research, running from 1965 to 1974 and spanning all branches of hydrology in 107 countries.
International Hydrological Programme
The International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is UNESCO's intergovernmental scientific program for water research, resources management, education, and capacity development, founded in 1975 to continue the International Hydrological Decade.
International Hydropower Association
The International Hydropower Association (IHA) is a London-based non-profit organization, founded in 1995, representing the hydropower sector and advancing sustainable hydropower through advocacy and research.
International Ice Hockey Federation
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), formerly Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace, founded 15 May 1908 in Paris; world governing body of ice hockey with 84 member associations, Olympic and World Championship oversight, president Franz Reindl since October 2026.
International IDEA
International IDEA, formally the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, is an intergovernmental organization founded in Stockholm in 1995 that supports democratic institutions, elections, and constitution-building worldwide.
International Image Interoperability Framework
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, triple-eye-eff): open API specifications and community for delivering and viewing digitized images and AV media, with Image, Presentation, Auth, Search, Change Discovery, and Content State APIs.
International Indian Film Academy Awards
The International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), founded in 2000 by Wizcraft, honor Hindi cinema through a touring international ceremony decided by industry and public voting; distinct from jury-based National Film Awards.
International Indian Ocean Expedition
The International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) was a multinational oceanographic program, running through 1965, that made the first coordinated, basin-wide survey of the Indian Ocean.
International Infrastructure Finance Co
International Infrastructure Finance Co is a series of infrastructure-credit funds, first raised in 2013, that invests in senior, secured, post-construction project finance debt rather than infrastructure equity.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international research institute near Vienna, founded in 1972 as East-West scientific cooperation during the Cold War.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
International IDEA, an intergovernmental organization founded in Stockholm in 1995 with 35 Member States, supports democracy worldwide through electoral assistance, constitution-building support, and its Global State of Democracy Indices and reports.
International Institute for Strategic Studies
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based independent think tank founded in 1958, publisher of The Military Balance and Survival, and host of the Shangri-La Dialogue and Manama Dialogue on global security.