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The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) is an international youth organisation, recognised by the United Nations as an international youth non-governmental organisation. WFDY describes itself as an 'anti-imperialist, left-wing' organisation.
It was founded in London in 1945 as a broad international youth movement, organised in the context of the end of World War II with the aim of uniting youth from the Allied nations behind an anti-fascist platform that was broadly pro-peace, anti-nuclear war, expressing friendship between youth of the capitalist and socialist nations.
The WFDY Headquarters are in Budapest, Hungary. It was one of the first organisations granted general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
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Hungary. World Federation of Democratic Youth
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