List Of Intergovernmental Organizations

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Short description: Overview of IGOs


A ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva, Switzerland)

The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).

For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations,[1] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as well as those in operation (figures as of the 400th edition, 2012/13). A 2020 academic dataset on international organizations included 561 intergovernmental organizations between 1815 and 2015; more than one-third of those IGOs ended up defunct.[2]

United Nations and agencies

The UN has six principal organs:

  • The General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly);
  • The Security Council (decides certain resolutions for peace and security);
  • The Economic and Social Council (assists in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development);
  • The Secretariat (provides studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN);
  • The International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ).
  • The United Nations Trusteeship Council (inactive)

The UN also includes various Funds, Programmes and specialized agencies:

The UN also includes subsidiary organs:

  • International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
    • International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
    • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

Agricultural research organizations

Fisheries organizations

Maritime organizations

Financial, trade, and customs organizations

See also: Organization:International financial institutions, Trade bloc § Lists of trade blocs, List of free trade agreements, Central bank, Bretton Woods system, and Cartel

Regional organizations

Main articles: Place:Regional organization and Continental union
Organisations grouping almost all the countries in their respective continents. Note that Cuba is a suspended member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Several smaller regional organizations with non-overlapping memberships
Several non-overlapping large alliances. Softer colors indicate observer/associate or candidate countries.

Europe

Asia

Transcontinental

Africa

Americas

Military alliances

  • Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS)
  • AUKUS
  • Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact)
  • Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC)

Cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious organizations

Educational organizations and universities

Law enforcement cooperation

Transport

Humanitarian organizations

Environmental organizations

Arms control

Main articles: Engineering:Arms control and weapon of mass destruction
See also: Social:List of weapons of mass destruction treaties and Naval conference (disambiguation)

Energy organizations

Multi sector organizations

Nuclear power organizations

Main articles: Physics:Nuclear power, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear proliferation, and Nuclear disarmament

Sustainable energy organizations

  • International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
  • Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)
  • Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
  • International Solar Alliance
See also: Organization:CERN and International Commission on Radiological Protection

Digital organizations

Ideological and political groupings

See also: Warsaw Pact

(disbanded)

See also: Organization:International Workingmen's Association, Second International, Socialist International, and Fourth International

Other

  • International Commission on Missing Persons
  • Advisory Centre on World Trade Organization Law
  • International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
  • International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
  • Partners in Population and Development
  • South Centre
  • SKA Observatory (SKAO)
  • World Organisation for Animal Health
  • Forum for India-Pacific Islands cooperation (FIPIC)
  • U-Report
  • International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE)
  • International Council on Social Welfare
  • List of European countries by membership in international organisations
  • International organizations membership by countries
    • International organisations in Africa
    • International organization membership of Algeria
    • International organization membership of Andorra
    • International organization membership of Austria
    • International organisation membership of Canada
    • International organization membership of China
    • International organization membership of Haiti
    • International organization membership of Honduras
    • International organization membership of Hong Kong
    • International organization membership of Hungary
    • International organization membership of Iceland
    • International organization membership of Indonesia
    • International organization membership of Iran
    • International organization membership of Iraq
    • International organization membership of Israel
    • International organization membership of Kosovo
    • International organization membership of the Netherlands
    • International organization membership of the Philippines
    • International organization membership of Syria
    • International organization membership of Thailand
    • Turkey's membership of international organizations
    • International organization membership of Uganda
    • International membership of Ukraine
    • International organization membership of the United States
    • International organization membership of Uzbekistan
    • International organization membership of Vatican City
    • International organization membership of Yemen
    • International organization membership of Zambia
    • International organization membership of Zimbabwe

Defunct

See also

  • List of local government organizations
  • List of international sports federations

References

  1. ↑ Union of International Associations, ed. (1998), Yearbook of international organizations, Leiden: Brill, http://www.uia.be/yearbook  (six volumes in print format, plus online, subscription-based edition)
  2. ↑ Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette (2020). "Death of international organizations. The organizational ecology of intergovernmental organizations, 1815–2015" (in en). The Review of International Organizations 15 (2): 339–370. doi:10.1007/s11558-018-9340-5. ISSN 1559-744X. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-018-9340-5. 
  3. ↑ German Foreign Ministry, retrieved 6 July 2011



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