The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is a global communion of Christian Churches in the Lutheran tradition. Founded in 1947 in Lund, Sweden, the LWF now has 136 churches in 76 countries, representing 61.7 million Lutherans worldwide. The LWF has two programs that relate to the Amor Report. First, the Office for International Affairs and Human Rights, based in Geneva, supports UN human rights programs, peacemaking, reconciliation, and human rights education. The office has consultative status within UN ECOSOC instruments, and is represented at the UN in New York by an affiliation through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America's Lutheran office for World Community. The second program, the LWF's Women in Church and Society (WICAS) desk, emphasizes mainstreaming women into the life of the church and society, and proposes effective responses to social injustice and dehumanizing conditions.