INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International

• Japan: 6,461 members. http://www.amnesty.or.jp/profile.shtml (Japanese) (5/15/03)

• United States: 300,000 members. Telephone conversation with Amnesty International USA headquarters, in New York (3/8/03)

Greenpeace

• Japan: 4,500 supporters. http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/info/index_en_html (10/23/05)

• United States: 250,000 members. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/about (10/23/05)

Lions Clubs

Data on membership in Lions Clubs from an email correspondence from the U.S. headquarters of Lions and Lioness Clubs International (1/2/03)

• Australia: 28,185

• Finland: 27,200

• Germany: 41,336

• Japan: 135,285

• Mexico: 12,996

• Norway: 13,748

• Spain: 2,579

• Sweden: 14,826

• Switzerland: 8,136 (includes Luxembourg)

• Turkey: 9,489

• United States: 437,887 (includes affiliates in Bermuda and the Bahamas)

Parent-Teacher Associations

• Finland: Finnish Parent's Association, 200,000 parents; 1,100 associations. European Parents Association (www.epa-parents.org) (10/23/05) and www.suomenvanhempainliitto.fi (10/23/05)

• Japan: 11 million. Nippon PTA Zenkoku Kyougikai (Japan's National PTA Council): http://www.nippon-pta.or.jp/jigyougaiyou/gaiyou_3.html (12/21/05).

• Spain: Confederation Catolica Nacional de Padres de Familia y Padres de Alumnos, 3 million families. http://www.concapa.org/modules.php?name=Contenido&pa=showpage&pid=1 (8/8/06) (Spanish)

• Turkey: none. Email correspondence with Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. (1/28/03)

• United States: 6 million members, 26,000 local units. National PTA: www.pta.org/jp_why_join_pta.html (12/21/05)

Red Cross

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Profile of national Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies: http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/profile/index.asp (10/23/05)

• Membership analysis based on forty-four countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Korea (South), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela

Rotary Club International

Data on membership in Rotary Clubs from email correspondence (2/10/04) from Rotary Club International. Membership for each country (as of 1/31/04)

• Australia: 35,892

• Finland: 11,650

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