The First International

Examples of The First International in the following topics:

• Anarchism

  • The International Workingmen's Association, often called the "First International," was an international organization that aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist, and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  • Its first congress was held in 1866 in Geneva.
  • The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, who sought to, "replace the privilege and authority of the State," with the, "free and spontaneous organization of labor."
  • The incident became known as the Haymarket Affair, and was a setback for the labor movement and the struggle for the eight-hour day.
  • Although it had initially been conceived as a one-off event, by the following year, the celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day had become firmly established as an international worker's holiday.

• Functions of International Banks

  • First, many government leaders repealed laws that restricted the free flow of investment between countries.
  • International banks transcend the functions of a domestic bank because they link savers and borrowers across different countries.
  • International banks provide three benefits.
  • First, international banks accept deposits from savers and lend to borrowers, and the savers and borrowers are located in different countries.
  • International banks link savers and borrowers from different countries across the world, crossing international borders.

• Introduction to IFRS

  • Many countries use or are moving towards using the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which were established and maintained by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
  • The IAS were issued between 1973 and 2001 by the Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).
  • On April 1, 2001, the new IASB took over the responsibility for setting International Accounting Standards from the IASC.
  • During its first meeting the new Board adopted existing IAS and Standing Interpretations Committee standards (SICs).
  • The project also intends consider the changes in the economic environment that have occurred in the two or more decades since the concepts were first developed.

• The International Framework in the 21st Century

• The International Monetary Structure

  • The main components in the international monetary structure are global institutions (such as the International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Settlements), national agencies and government departments (such as central banks and finance ministries), private institutions acting on the global scale (such as banks and hedge funds), and regional institutions (like the Eurozone or NAFTA).
  • The most prominent international institutions are the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states.
  • Setting up a system of rules, institutions, and procedures to regulate the international monetary system, the planners at Bretton Woods established the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which today is part of the World Bank Group.
  • Explain the role played by the United States over the history of the international monetary structure

• Persecution in the International Criminal Court

• The Lack of International Response

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of what many people believe to be the rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
  • The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols.
  • In 1966, the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights.
  • The Declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
  • The principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and many more.

• References

  • Newark, DE: International Reading Association
  • The Reading Teacher, 39(8), 771-77.
  • Structured dialogues among communities of first-grade learners.
  • Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
  • Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Advantages of LIFO

  • LIFO stands for last-in, first-out, meaning that the most recently produced items are recorded as sold first.
  • Since the 1970s, some U.S. companies shifted towards the use of LIFO, which reduces their income taxes in times of inflation, but with International Financial Reporting Standards banning the use of LIFO, more companies have gone back to FIFO.
  • FIFO stands for first-in, first-out, meaning that the oldest inventory items are recorded as sold first but do not necessarily mean that the exact oldest physical object has been tracked and sold.
  • LIFO stands for last-in, first-out, meaning that the most recently produced items are recorded as sold first.
  • LIFO considers the last unit arriving in inventory as the first one sold.