Organization:List of intergovernmental organizations

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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

Regional organizations

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 colours 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)

Cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious organizations

Educational organizations and universities

Law enforcement cooperation

Transport

  • Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF)
  • Organization for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD or OSShD)
  • International Civil Aviation Organization
  • TRACECA
  • Southeast Europe Transport Community
  • International Transport Forum (ITF)

Humanitarian organizations

Environmental organizations

Arms control


Energy organizations

Multi sector organizations

Nuclear power organizations

Sustainable energy organizations

  • International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
  • Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)
  • Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
  • International Solar Alliance


Digital organizations

Ideological and political groupings

  • Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD)
  • Non-Aligned Movement
  • Group of Seven (G7)
  • Group of 15 (G-15)
  • Group of 77 (G-77)
  • Group of 24 (G24)
  • G20
  • Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
  • BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
  • Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA)
  • Association of World Election Bodies (AWEB)
  • New Agenda Coalition
  • Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative[3]
  • Western European and Others Group
See also: Warsaw Pact (disbanded)

Other

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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