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The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest international scout organization and was established in 1922. [1] [2] It has 176 members. [3]These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has a membership of 155 National Scout Organizations with more than 28 million individuals. [27] [28] Only one national Scouting organization per country is recognized by WOSM. In some countries the National Scout Organization is a federation composed of more than one Scout association.
A study found 3,100 killed and 6,880 were kidnapped, amouting to 2.5% of Yazidis being either killed or kidnapped. [ 66 ] By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq's Kurdistan Region and Syria's Rojava .
Scouts and Guides from several different countries meet at World Scout Moot in Sweden, 1996. There have been different approaches to co-educational Scouting. Some countries have maintained separate Scouting organizations for boys and girls, [88] In other countries, especially within Europe, Scouting and Guiding have merged, and there is a ...
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts recognizes at most one Guiding organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religions (France, Denmark), ethnic identification (Israel) or language (Belgium).
Simmern, a memorial for all Scouts killed in action during the World Wars and all Scouts killed by the Nazis. [68] Gündelskopf, a mountain in the alps of the Allgäu, Scouts and Guides of the Catholic Scouts of Europe erected a cross on the top of the Gündelskopf to commemorate 100 years of Scouting and to honor the Lord [69] [70]
The Asociación de Scouts de Cuba (ASC, Scout Association of Cuba) was the national Scouting organization of Cuba from 1927 to 1961. Scouting in Cuba started in 1914, in 1927 the ASC was founded and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement the same year and was suspended from WOSM membership in 1961.
In 1920, a conference held during the 1st World Scout Jamboree at Olympia, London agreed to create a Boy Scouts international bureau. An office was established at 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London and The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom International Commissioner, Hubert S. Martin, was appointed as honorary director.