3.3 Specialized Agencies (Structure and Functions)

The fourteen (the syllabus's list — the exam's staple; for each: born-HQ-organs-work-Nepal):3.3.1 International Labour Organization (ILO) — born 1919 (Treaty of Versailles; the League's survivor), HQ Geneva; the tripartite uniqueness: each member's delegation — two government, one employer, one worker delegate (the only IO where non-state actors vote); organs: the International Labour Conference (the convention-and-recommendation factory), the Governing Body, the International Labour Office; functions: the international labourcode (the fundamental conventions — freedom of association, forced labour, child labour, discrimination; the 1998 Declaration's core), supervision (the reporting-and-complaint machinery), technical cooperation; the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize. Nepal: a long-standing member (joined 1923) — the ratifications' portfolio and the labour-law reform projects (the Labour Act 2074's ILO lineage). 3.3.2 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) — 1945, HQ Rome; the Conference (biennial), the Council, the Director-General; functions: the food-and-agriculture statistics (FAOSTAT), the plant-and-animal health codes, the fisheries-and-forestry regimes, the CodexAlimentarius (with WHO — food standards' joint organ), the emergency-and-rehabilitation food programmes, the SDG-2 stewardship. Nepal: agriculture's majority-share economy — the projects'long file. 3.3.3 World Health Organization (WHO) — 1948, HQ Geneva; the World HealthAssembly (the annual ministerial), the Executive Board, the Director-General and the regionaloffices (SEARO for South-East Asia — the Nepal window); functions: the International HealthRegulations (the pandemic law: notification, the public-health emergency of international concern), the epidemic response, the immunisation-and-programme eras (smallpox's…