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International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
The International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN) is a global organization of seismograph network operators, founded in 1984, that coordinates station siting and open data exchange.
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is the world's largest federation of journalists' trade unions, representing about 600,000 media workers in over 140 countries since its 1952 founding in Brussels.
International Federation of Pedestrians
The International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) is a global network of nonprofit pedestrian advocacy groups founded in 1963, working for walkable, safe public space and holding UN consultative status.
International Federation of Philosophical Societies
FISP, founded 1948 in Amsterdam, is the leading non-governmental international federation of philosophical societies; it sponsors the five-yearly World Congress of Philosophy (next: Tokyo 2028) and the Philosophy Olympiad under UNESCO ties.
International Federation of Robotics
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) is a global not-for-profit robotics industry organization founded in 1987 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, known for publishing the annual World Robotics statistics on industrial and service robots.
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) is the worldwide trade body for the recorded music industry, founded 1933 in Rome, a Swiss-registered non-profit publishing the annual Global Music Report and Global Charts.
International Federation of Trade Unions
The International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the Amsterdam International, was the main international trade union federation from 1913 to 1945, reconstituted at Amsterdam in 1919, rival to the communist Red International of Labour Unions, and dissolved in 1945 when the World Federation of Trade Unions replaced it.
International federations for Olympic winter sports
Seven international federations, including FIS, ISU, and IIHF, govern the Olympic winter sports and coordinate through the Winter Olympic Federations, whose associate member is the International Ski Mountaineering Federation.
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) is a Chicago-based nonprofit founded in 1983 by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein that raises Christian donations for Jewish humanitarian aid.
International Film Festival of India
International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded 1952, South Asia's oldest film festival; FIAPF-accredited, run by NFDC and Ministry of I&B with Goa; permanent venue Goa since 2004; 57th edition 20–28 November 2026, Panaji.
International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, established in 1956 to finance private enterprise in emerging markets.
International financial institutions
International financial institutions (IFIs) are banks and funds owned by two or more sovereign governments, including the IMF and World Bank, both founded at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
International Financial Reporting Standards
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are accounting standards written by the International Accounting Standards Board that govern how companies prepare financial statements, required in more than 140 jurisdictions.
International Fixed Calendar
The International Fixed Calendar, or Cotsworth calendar, is a proposed calendar of 13 months of 28 days, used internally by Kodak from 1928 to 1989.
International Flavors & Fragrances
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) is an American multinational maker of flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health and biosciences products, founded in 1889 and headquartered in New York.
International Fleet Review 2026
The International Fleet Review 2026 was a ceremonial naval review off Visakhapatnam, India, at which President Droupadi Murmu reviewed 85 ships from 74 countries, India's third such review.
International Floorball Federation
International Floorball Federation (IFF), world governing body for floorball, founded 12 April 1986 in Huskvarna, Sweden by Sweden, Finland, and Switzerland; full IOC member, runs World Floorball Championships, over 80 member countries.
International Folk Music Council
The International Folk Music Council, known since 1981 as the International Council for Traditional Music, is a scholarly organization founded in London in 1947 to promote folk music study worldwide.
International Football Association Board
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), founded 1886 by the four British football associations with FIFA joining 1913, is the sole law-making body for association football's Laws of the Game, using an 8-member vote (four British FAs one vote each, FIFA four) and annual AGM/ABM meetings.
International Force East Timor
The International Force East Timor (INTERFET) was a United Nations-mandated, Australian-led multinational force under Major-General Peter Cosgrove that restored peace in East Timor from September 1999 to February 2000.
International Formula 3000
International Formula 3000, also FIA F3000 International Championship, was the FIA's second-tier single-seater feeder series to Formula 1 from 1985 to 2004, using 3000cc V8 engines, before GP2 replaced it in 2005.
International Four Days Marches Nijmegen
International Four Days Marches Nijmegen (Nijmeegse Vierdaagse), the Walk of the World: annual four-day walking event in Nijmegen since 1909; 45,000+ walkers cover 30, 40, or 50 km daily for the Four Days Marches Cross.
International Fund for Agricultural Development
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a Rome-based UN specialized agency and financial institution, established in 1977 to fund agricultural development in the poorest countries.
International Fund for Animal Welfare
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), global animal welfare and conservation nonprofit founded by Brian Davies in 1969 to end Canada's whitecoat seal hunt; headquartered in The Hague with operations in over 40 countries.
International Gaza Support Center
International Gaza Support Center (IGSC), formerly Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC): US-led multinational coordination facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel, established by CENTCOM in October 2025 under Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan to coordinate aid, ceasefire monitoring, and stabilization.
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is a subject-based qualification for 14-16 year olds, first examined in 1988 by Cambridge International (also offered by Pearson Edexcel), with over 70 subjects, A-G or 9-1 grading, and GCSE-equivalent recognition.
International Geomagnetic Reference Field
The International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) is a standard mathematical model of Earth's main magnetic field, produced by IAGA and updated every 5 years since 1968.
International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was an 18-month program of Earth-science observation in 1957–58, in which 67 nations discovered the Van Allen belts and launched the first satellites.
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) was an international research program studying global change through Earth-system science. Established in 1986, it closed in 2015, passing its projects to Future Earth.
International Gliding Commission
The International Gliding Commission (IGC), formally the FAI Gliding Commission, is the body within the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale responsible for international gliding, founded in 1932.