Government Information on the Internet: A Primer
Multi-National Organizations
The following list provides links to the major intergovernmental organizations. Several key locator sites are listed to provide access to agencies not listed individually on this page. There is also a link to a major directory of international organizations, with links to many non-governmental organzations.
Locator Sites |
United Nations |
Other Major Organizations |
Regional Organizations |
Non-Governmental Organizations |
Locator sites
Governments on the WWW: Multi-National Organizations
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/multi.html
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
http://vlib.org/InternationalAffairs.html
UN and International Organizations and Related Links:
http://www.undcp.org/unlinks.html
United Nations International Organizations Network Search:
http://www.inweh.unu.edu/inweh/UNorgs.htm
United Nations
United Nations Headquarters, New York:
http://www.un.org/index.html
Dag Hammarskjöld Library (DHL):
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/
UN Documentation: Research Guides
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/
UN System pathfinder
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/frame/start.htm
United Nations Office, Geneva:
http://www.unog.ch/
UN Official Website Locator:
http://www.unsystem.org/
Regional Commissions
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA): - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE): - Geneva, Switzerland:
http://www.unece.org/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC): - Santiago, Chile:
http://www.eclac.cl/
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP): - Bangkok, Thailand:
http://www.unescap.org/
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA):
- Beirut, Lebanon:
http://www.escwa.org.lb/
Selected Other UN web sites
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
http://www.unicef.org/
UN Development Programme (UNDP):
http://www.undp.org/
Project Reports:
http://stone.undp.org/
Publications:
http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/index.html
United Nations Fund for Population Assistance (UNFPA):
http://www.unfpa.org/
Other Major Multi-National Organizations
Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO):
http://www.fao.org
G8 Information Centre
http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/ -- University of Toronto
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
http://www.iaea.or.at/
IAEA
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO):
http://www.icao.org/
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS):
http://www.international.icomos.org/
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy
http://www.ifad.org/
International Labour Organization (ILO):
http://www.ilo.org/
International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/index.htm
International Training Centre
http://www.itcilo.it/
International Organization for Migration
http://www.iom.int/
International Maritime Organization
http://www.imo.org/
International Telecommunications Union (ITU):
http://www.itu.int/home/
Non-Aligned Movement:
http://www.nam.gov.za/ -- established in 1961, the NAM provides a forum for 113 developing nations.
Nuclear Energy Agency
http://www.nea.fr/
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development:
http://www.oecd.org/home/
OPEC: Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
Countries.
http://www.opec.org/
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW):
http://www.opcw.org/
UNESCO:
http://www.unesco.org/
UNESCO Libraries Portal:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/
Universal Postal Union (UPU):
http://www.upu.int/
Worldbank, International Monetary Fund, and International Finance Corporation
Worldbank Group homepage:
http://www.worldbank.org
International Monetary Fund:
http://www.imf.org
Worldbank and IMF Libraries home page:
http://JOLIS.WORLDBANKIMFLIB.ORG
International Finance Corporation (IFC):
http://www.ifc.org
World Food Programme (WFP):
http://www.wfp.org/index.htm
World Health Organization (WHO):
http://www.who.org/
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):
http://www.wipo.org
World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
http://www.wmo.ch/
World Trade Organization (WTO):
http://www.wto.org/
World Tourism Organization (WTO):
http://www.world-tourism.org/
Regional Organizations
Note: Regional Commissions of the United Nations are listed under the
United Nations
Africa
African National Congress
http://www.anc.org.za/
Pan
African Development Information System [PADIS]
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Padis/menu_padis.html
Americas
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,
General Secretariate:
Andean Community
http://www.comunidadandina.org/
Association of Caribbean States
http://www.acs-aec.org/
Caribbean Community (Caricom):
http://www.caricom.org/
Inter-American Development Bank
http://www.iadb.org/
MERCOSUL (via Ministério das Relações Exteriores,
Brazil):
http://www.mre.gov.br/
Organization of American States
http://www.oas.org/
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
http://www.oecs.org/
Pan American Health Organization
http://www.paho.org/
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement): Secretariate
http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index.html
Arctic
Arctic Council
http://www.arctic-council.org/
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
http://www.amap.no/
Asia
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Secretariat
http://www.apecsec.org.sg.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN]
http://www.arfmarinfo.org/english/dmgk/index.html
Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org/
Europe
Council of the Baltic Sea States
http://www.cbss.st/
Commonwealth of Independent States
http://www.cis.minsk.by/
Council of Europe
All The Web Sites from the Council of Europe -- from the European Cultural Cooperation Web site.
http://www.coe.int/DefaultEN.asp
Council of Europe
http://www.coe.int/DefaultEN.asp
Council of Europe -- Parliamentary Assembly
http://assembly.coe.int/
European Court of Human Rights
http://www.echr.coe.int/
Council of Europe - Human Rights
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Clrae/
Committee of Ministers
http://www.coe.int/t/cm/home_en.asp
European Cultural Portal
http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/portal/index_en.htm
European Free Trade Association
http://www.efta.int/
European Union -- the main official servers and a few Internetsites with comprehensive listings of EU materials.
Council of the European Union
http://ue.eu.int/index.htm
The Information Society
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_en.htm
Economic and Social Committee
http://www.esc.eu.int
Committee of the Regions
http://www.cor.eu.int/
European Parliament
http://www.europarl.eu.int
European Court of Justice
http://europa.eu.int/cj/index.htm
European Court of Auditors
http://www.eca.eu.int/
European Commission in the United
Kingdom
http://www.cec.org.uk/
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: --
http://www.ebrd.org/
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
http://www.un.org/icty/
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
http://www.nato.int/
Nordic Council
http://www.norden.org/index_uk.html
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):
http://www.osceprag.cz/
Western European Union
(WEU):
http://www.weu.int/
Assembly of the WEU
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/multi.html
Western European Armaments Group
http://www.weu.int/weag/
Transatlantic Forum
http://www.weu.int/
Oceania
South Pacific Trade Commission (SPTC): in Sydney
http://www.sptc.gov.au/
Pacific Community
http://www.spc.org.nc/
Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP):
http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP
http://www.sprep.org.ws/
Non-Governmental Organizations
Institute for Global Communications
http://www.igc.apc.org/
NGO Cafe
http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/
NGO Global Network
http://www.ngonet.org/
NGONet
http://www.ngo.org/ -- focuses on Eastern and Central Europe
International Organization Web Sites
http://www.uia.org/website.htm
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