List of intergovernmental organizations

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

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

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).

United Nations and agencies
Main articles: United Nations and United Nations System
See also: Member states of the United Nations and Secretary-General of the United Nations

The UN has six principal organs:

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

The UN also includes subsidiary organs:

Agricultural research organizations

Humanitarian organizations

Human rights organizations

Rescue organizations

Environmental organizations
See also: List of supranational environmental agencies

Fisheries organizations

Maritime organizations
See also: Admiralty law, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, international waters, and territorial waters

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

Energy organizations

Multi sector organizations

Sustainable energy organizations

Nuclear power organizations
Main articles: Nuclear power, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear proliferation, and Nuclear disarmament
See also: CERN and International Commission on Radiological Protection

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

Law enforcement cooperation
See also: Law enforcement agency and police

Transport

Regional organizations
Main articles: Regional organization and Continental union
Organisations grouping almost all the countries in their respective continents. Note that Russia is member of both the Council of Europe (COE) and the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), and 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

Educational organizations and universities

Digital organizations
  • Digital 9 (D9)

Cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious organizations

Ideological and political groupings
See also: Warsaw Pact

(disbanded)

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

Other

Defunct

See also

References
  1. Union of International Associations (ed.), Yearbook of international organizations, Leiden: Brill (six volumes in print format, plus online, subscription-based edition)
  2. "IHRC". https://www.ihrchq.org/. Retrieved 2020-06-10. External link in |website= (help)
  3. German Foreign Ministry, retrieved 6 July 2011
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