Help was also received from the UN Office of Electoral Assistance.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

An IRIN news report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted: " Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings – it also boasts an extensive social development program.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

Ahtisaari's office — the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) — is located in Vienna and includes liaison staff from NATO, the European Union and the United States.

It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ), and was also assisted in its work by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( UNHCHR ).

The main objectives of the act were to create a new definition of refugee based on the one created at the UN Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees, raise the limitation from 17, 400 to 50, 000 refugees admitted each fiscal year, provide emergency procedures for when that number exceeds 50, 000, and to establish the Office of U. S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Political prisoners were granted amnesty, discriminatory legislation was repealed, South Africa withdrew all its forces from Namibia, and some 42, 000 refugees returned safely and voluntarily under the auspices of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( UNOCHA ) has stated that most children serving as soldiers are over fifteen, although many exist at far younger ages.

In February 2002, a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) report about PMCs noted that the demands of the military service from the UN and international civil organizations might mean that it is cheaper to pay PMCs than use soldiers.

Israel is a member of many agencies within the UN, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), and the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ).

On 2 June 2004, the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services ( OIOS ) which was tasked with investigating the accusation, sent its report to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

* UN Office in Timor-Leste ( UNOTIL ), 2005 – 06

In early 2006, Ahtisaari opened the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) in Vienna, Austria, from where he conducted the Kosovo status negotiations.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions ( spring session at UN headquarters in New York, summer and fall sessions at the UN Office in Geneva ) to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by 162 UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR, and to examine individual petitions concerning 112 States parties to the Optional Protocol.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

The Office is headed by a High Commissioner with the rank of Under-Secretary-General.

The 39-story Secretariat tower houses offices for the Secretary General, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Office of Disarmament Affairs, and the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management ( DGACM ).

Jayantha Dhanapla " ( 2002 -), former Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations ( 1998-2003 ), and former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the US ( 1995-97 ) and to the UN Office in Geneva ( 1984-87 )

Dileep Nair was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services and head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services.

Antonio Maria Costa was an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed, from May 2002 until August 2010, to the positions of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna ( UNOV ).

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator is a high level position in the United Nations that heads the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator is a high level position in the United Nations that heads the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

* Carman Lapointe-Young, Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 1965, Essays on military psychological operations, Special Operations Research Office, American University

* The Special Projects Office ( SPO ) researched, developed, demonstrated, and transitioned technologies focused on addressing present and emerging national challenges.

* NAVFAC ( Naval Facilities Engineering Command ) ( 1983 ) Design Manual 7. 03, Soil Dynamics, Deep Stabilization and Special Geotechnical Construction, US Government Printing Office

* Office of Special Investigations, a name shared by several government agencies

** U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations

** Office of Special Investigations ( Government Accountability Office )

** Office of Special Investigations ( United States Department of Justice )

* Office of Special Investigation ( Republic of Korea ), a secret intelligence unit of Republic of Korea Air Force

The assets of the SSU, which now constituted a streamlined " nucleus " of clandestine intelligence, was transferred to the CIG in mid-1946 and reconstituted as the Office of Special Operations ( OSO ).

He was eventually accepted to Harvard in 1954 after first enrolling as a student in Harvard's Office of Special Students.

Ashore, Admiral Clark first served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Systems Analysis Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Federal protections are enhanced in those few cases where the Office of Special Counsel will support the whistleblower's appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board ( MSPB ).

* August 1 – The U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.

The Office of Homeland Security ( OHS ) designated the Olympics a National Special Security Event ( NSSE ).

Senior staff within the Executive Office of the President have the title Assistant to the President, second-level staff have the title Deputy Assistant to the President, and third-level staff have the title Special Assistant to the President.

This group consists of representatives from a variety of FBI subprograms ( i. e. Economic Crimes Unit, Money Laundering Unit, LCN / Organized Crime Unit, Asian Organized Crime Unit, Public Corruption / Government Fraud Unit, Cryptographic Racketeering Analysis Unit, and Indian Country Special Jurisdiction Unit ) and other federal agencies, which include Department of Interior Office of Inspector General ( DOI-OIG ), NIGC, Internal Revenue Service Tribal Government Section ( IRS-TGS ), Department of Treasure Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FINCEN ), Department of Justice ( DOJ ), and Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Law Enforcement Services ( BIA-OLES ).

The Ropp Center was used by the College of Home Economics for 13 years until the Office of Special Programs moved into the building in 1985.

It includes WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, Peachtree First Accounting, Norton AntiVirus 2000, Corel Print Office 2000 Special Edition, Trellix 2, Online Merchant software, Stamps. com Internet PostageAmigo 2000, WordPerfect Office 2000 Software Developer's Kit, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Within the Interior Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs handles some federal relations with Native Americans, while others are handled by the Office of Special Trustee.