1. The people born and living about the same time, considered as a group: the baby-boom generation. 2. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring: a social change that took place over three generations.
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC, sometimes I.T.C.) is an independent, bipartisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches.
The term, non-governmental organization or NGO, came into currency in 1945 because of the need for the UN to differentiate in its Charter between participation rights for intergovernmental specialized agencies and those for international private organizations.GOs, Political Parties and Ethnic Minorities. While a political party is not regarded as an NGO and cannot gain recognition at the UN, a small number of transnational groupings of political parties do gain consultative status with ECOSOC. There are also several groups of parliamentarians with consultative status.