Constitution & By-Laws

WFUNA Constitution and Bylaws

The Constitution of WFUNA was signed and entered into force in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on 2 August 1946.

Read the WFUNA Constitution and Bylaws[pdf], with revisions adopted by the 40th WFUNA Plenary Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2012. 

The Rules of Procedure were adopted by the 12th WFUNA Plenary Assembly, held 2-8 September 1957 in Geneva. From 1983 onwards, they are known as By-Laws.

The Founding Members were the United Nations Associations of the following countries:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Czechoslovakia
• Denmark
• France
• Hungary
• Iraq
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• South Africa
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States of America