List of international organisations which have French as an official, administrative or working language.
Organisation | Number of official languages | French name | Headquarters | Note |
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Francophonie | 1 | Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie | Paris, France | The community of French-speaking nations |
AU | 5 (Languages of the AU) | Union africaine | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | French is an official language in 21 member states and a commonly used language in four others. |
Amnesty International | 5 (Portuguese, English, Spanish, Arabic) | Amnesty International | London, United Kingdom | |
ACS | 3 (English, Spanish) | Association des États de la Caraïbe | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | |
ATS | 4 (English, Russian, Spanish) | Secrétariat du Traité sur l'Antarctique | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
BIE | 2 (English) | Bureau International des Expositions | Paris, France | |
BIPM | 2 (English) | Bureau international des poids et mesures | Sèvres, France | |
CAS | 2 (English) | Tribunal Arbitral du Sport | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
CCJ | 3 (English, Dutch) | Cour Caribéenne de Justice | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | |
CEN-SAD | 4 (Arabic, English, Portuguese) | Communauté des États Sahélo-Sahariens | Tripoli, Libya | |
CMAS | 3 (English, Spanish) | Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques | Rome, Italy | |
CoE | 2 (English) | Conseil de l'Europe | Strasbourg, France | |
COMESA | 3 (English, Portuguese) | Marché commun de l'Afrique orientale et australe | Tripoli, Libya | |
EBU | 2 (English) | Union européenne de radio-télévision | Geneva, Switzerland | |
ECCAS | 3 (Portuguese, Spanish) | Communauté Économique des États d'Afrique Centrale | Libreville, Gabon | |
ECMWF | 3 (English, German) | Centre européen de prévision météorologique à moyen terme | Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom | |
ECOWAS | 3 (English, Portuguese) | Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest | Abuja, Nigeria | |
ESA | 3 (English, German) | Agence spatiale européenne | Paris, France | |
EU | 23 (Languages of the EU) | Union européenne | Brussels, Belgium | The European Commission, conducts its internal business in three languages - English, French and German |
EUMETSAT | 2 (English) | Organisation européenne pour l'exploitation des satellites météorologiques | Darmstadt, Germany | |
FAI | 2 (English) | Fédération Aéronautique Internationale | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FAO | 6 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish) | Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture | Rome, Italy | |
FATF | 2 (English) | Groupe d'action financière | Paris, France | |
FEI | 2 (English) | Fédération Équestre Internationale | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile | Paris, France | |
FIAPF | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films | Paris, France | |
FIBA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Basketball | Geneva, Switzerland | |
FIBT | 3 (English, German) | Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing | Milan, Italy | |
FIDE | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale des Échecs | Athens, Greece | |
FIE | 3 (English, Spanish) | Fédération Internationale d'Escrime | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIFA | 4 (English, German, Spanish) | Fédération Internationale de Football Association | Zürich, Switzerland | |
FIG | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIH | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIL | 3 (English, German) | Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course | Berchtesgaden, Germany | |
FILA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIM | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme | Mies, Switzerland | |
FINA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Natation | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIQ | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs | Pasig, Philippines | |
FIRS | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports | Rome, Italy | |
FIS | 3 (English, German) | Fédération Internationale de Ski | Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland | |
FISA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FITA | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
FIVB | 2 (English) | Fédération Internationale de Volleyball | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
ICC | 2 (English) | Cour Pénale Internationale | The Hague, Netherlands | |
Inter-American Court of Human Rights | 4 (Spanish, English, Portuguese) | Cour interaméricaine des droits de l'homme | San José, Costa Rica | |
ICJ | 2 (English) | Cour internationale de Justice | The Hague, Netherlands | |
ICOMOS | 2 (English) | Conseil international des monuments et des sites | Paris, France | |
IFJ | 3 (English, Spanish) | Fédération internationale des journalistes | Brussels, Belgium | |
IGAD | 2 (English) | Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement | Djibouti, Djibouti | |
IGU | 2 (English) | Union Géographique Internationale | Brussels, Belgium | |
IHO | 2 (English) | Organisation hydrographique internationale | Monaco | |
ILO | 2 (English) | Organisation internationale du Travail | Geneva, Switzerland | |
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement | 7 (English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian) | Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge | Geneva, Switzerland | |
Interpol | 4 (Arabic, English, Spanish) | Interpol | Lyon, France | |
IOC | 2 (English) | Comité International Olympique | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
IOM | 3 (English, Spanish) | Organisation Internationale pour les Migration | Geneva, Switzerland | |
IPSA | 2 (English) | Association internationale de science politique | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
IPU | 2 (English) | L'Union interparlementaire | Geneva, Switzerland | |
ISA | 3 (English, Spanish) | Autorité internationale des fonds marins | Kingston, Jamaica | |
ISO | 3 (English, Russian) | Organisation internationale de normalisation | Geneva, Switzerland | |
ISW | 3 (English, Spanish) | Secrétariat International de l'Eau | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
ITU | 6 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish) | Union internationale des télécommunications | Geneva, Switzerland | |
ITUC | 4 (English, Spanish, German) | Confédération syndicale internationale | Brussels, Belgium | |
IUCN | 3 (English, Spanish) | Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature | Gland, Switzerland | |
Latin Union | 6 (Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) | Union Latine | Paris, France | |
MSF | Médecins sans frontières | Geneva, Switzerland | ||
NAFTA | 3 (English, Spanish) | Accord de libre-échange nord-américain | Mexico City, Ottawa and Washington, D.C. | |
NATO | 2 (English) | Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord | Brussels, Belgium | |
OAS | 4 (English, Portuguese, Spanish) | Organisation des États Américains | Washington, D.C., US | |
OCCAR | Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d'armement | |||
OECD | 2 (English) | Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques | Paris, France | |
OECS | 2 (English) | Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale | Castries, Saint Lucia | |
World Intellectual Property Organization | 10 (Arabic, Portuguese, English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese and Korean) | Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle | Geneva, Switzerland | |
OIC | 3 (Arabic, English) | Organisation de la conférence islamique | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
OIV | 3 (English, Spanish) | Organisation internationale de la vigne et du vin | Paris, France | |
OPCW | 6 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish) | Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques | Washington, D.C., US | |
OSCE | 6 (English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish) | Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe | Vienna, Austria | |
PIF | 16 | Forum des îles du Pacifique | Suva, Fiji | |
RWB | 4 (English, German, Spanish) | Reporters sans frontières | Paris, France | |
SADC | 3 (English, Portuguese) | Communauté de Développement de l'Afrique Australe | Gaborone, Botswana | |
UCI | 2 (English) | Union Cycliste Internationale | Aigle, Switzerland | |
UEFA | 3 (English, German) | Union Européenne de Football Association | Nyon, Switzerland | |
UIAA | 2 (English) | Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme | Bern, Switzerland | |
UIM | 2 (English) | Union Internationale Motonautique | Monaco | |
UMB | 2 (English) | Union Mondiale de Billard | Madrid, Spain | |
UNESCO | 9 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Hindi, Italian, Russian and Spanish) | Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture | Paris, France | |
UN (and all its agencies) | 6 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish) | Organisation des Nations Unies | New York, US | The Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French. |
UNWTO | 5 (Arabic, English, Russian, Spanish) | Organisation mondiale du tourisme | Madrid, Spain | |
UPU | 2 (English) | Union postale universelle | Bern, Switzerland | French is still the sole official language of the UPU; English was added only as a working language in 1994 |
WADA | 2 (English) | Agence mondiale antidopage | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
WAN | 4 (English, German, Spanish) | Association mondiale des journaux | Paris, France | |
WBSC | 6 (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish) | Confédération internationale de baseball et softball | Lausanne, Switzerland | Established in 2013 from merger of IBAF and ISF |
WEU | 2 (English) | Union de l'Europe Occidentale | Brussels, Belgium | WEU ceased to exist in 2011 |
WTO | 3 (English, Spanish) | Organisation Mondiale du Commerce | Geneva, Switzerland | |
ZPCAS | 4 (English, Portuguese, Spanish) | Zone de Paix et de Coopération de l'Atlantique Sud | Brasília, Brazil |
CISM 4 (Arabic, English, Spanish) Conseil International du Sport Militaire Brussels, Belgium
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