International Governmental Organizations

[ A-D | E-H | I-N | O-T | U-V | W-Z ]

Selection Criteria

[A-D]

• African Development Bank http://www.afdb.org/

  Publications http://www.afdb.org/knowledge/home_publications.htm

• African Union (AU) http://www.africa-union.org/
• Andean Community http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm

  Documents http://www.comunidadandina.org/ingles/documents.htm

  Statistics http://www.comunidadandina.org/ingles/statis.htm

• Arctic Council http://www.arctic-council.org/
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme http://www.grida.no/amap/amap.htm
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
• Asian and Pacific Coconut Community http://www.apcc.org.sg/
• Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/

  Economics and Statistics http://www.adb.org/Economics/default.asp

  Publications http://www.adb.org/Publications/default.asp

• Asian Productivity Organization http://www.apo-tokyo.org/
• Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integration http://www.aladi.org/
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations http://www.aseansec.org/
• Helsinki Commission - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission http://www.helcom.fi/
• Bank for International Settlements http://www.bis.org
• CAB International http://www.cabi.org/
• Caribbean Community and Common Market http://www.caricom.org/

  Library of Congress. "Caribbean Islands-A Country Study" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cxtoc.html

  Appendix C The Caribean Community and Common Market http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/caribbean_islands/cx_appnc.html

• Caribbean Export Development Agency http://www.carib-export.com/
• Central American Bank for Economic Integration http://www.bcie.org/index.htm
• Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) http://www.bceao.int/bceao.htm
• Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific http://www.cirdap.org.sg/
• Chemical Weapons Convention. See OPCW
• North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english

  CEC Databases http://www.cec.org/pubs_info_resources/databases/index.cfm?varlan=english

  CEC Publications http://www.cec.org/pubs_info_resources/publications/index.cfm?varlan=english

• Commission for Labor Cooperation http://www.naalc.org/
• Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) http://www.ccamlr.org/
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa http://www.comesa.int/
• The Commonwealth http://www.thecommonwealth.org
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) http://www.cisstat.com/eng/cis.htm
  Executive Committee http://www.cis.minsk.by/
• Community of Portuguese Speaking Nations (CPLP) http://www.cplp.org/
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) http://www.ctbto.org/
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research http://www.cgiar.org/

  CGIAR Publications http://www.cgiar.org/cgpubs.htm

• Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest http://www.cgap.org/

  The Microfinance Gateway http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/cgap/index.htm

  Publications http://www.cgap.org/html/publications.html

• Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org/
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Secretariat http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/CITES/eng/index.shtml
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/index.html
• Council of the Baltic States http://www.cbss.st/
• Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/DefaultEN.asp

  Directorate General I - Legal Affairs - Treaty Office http://conventions.coe.int/

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[E-H]

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development http://www.ebrd.com/english/index.htm

  Publications http://www.ebrd.com/english/Public/index.htm

• European Court of Human Rights http://www.echr.coe.int/

  HUDOC (Database of the case-law of the supervisory organs of the European Convention on Human Rights) http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/hudoc/

• European Free Trade Association http://www.efta.int
• European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/

  Weblib.cern.ch (CERN Library catalog) http://weblib.cern.ch/welcome.php

• European Central Bank (ECB) http://www.ecb.int/
  Statistics [a "non-frame" page which does not link to another page] http://www.ecb.int/stats/stats01.htm
  The Euro http://www.euro.ecb.int/
• European Patent Office http://www.european-patent-office.org/
• EUTELSAT [European Telecommunications Satellite Organization] http://www.eutelsat.org/home/index.html

EUROPEAN UNION
• European Union. Europa (the European Union's Server) http://www.europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
  Eclas (European Commission Libraries Catalogue) http://europa.eu.int/eclas/
  Europa Information http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/info/guide/index_en.htm
  The abc of the European Union http://www.europa.eu.int/abc-en.htm
• The European Union in the World http://europa.eu.int/comm/world/
• Delegation of the European Commission to the United States http://www.eurunion.org/

  A-Z Index of European Union Websites http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euindex.htm

• Enlargement Web Site http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index_en.html
• EC/USA Cooperation (Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training between the European Community and the United States of America) http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/ec-usa/usa.html
• The European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm

  Alphabetical Index http://europa.eu.int/comm/atoz_en.htm

  Commission's Directorates-General and Services http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs_en.htm

• Eurostat http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/

  Eurostat - Your key to European statistics: A guide to the EU statistical office http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/

  Free downloads http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/newcronos/queen/display.do?screen=welcome&open=/&product=YES&depth=2&language=en

• Publications Office http://publications.eu.int/general/en/index_en.htm
• Public Opinion http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg10/epo/polls.html
• Schengen Visa http://www.eurovisa.info

• Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering http://www1.oecd.org/fatf/
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) http://www.fao.org/

  FAO Corporate Document Repository http://apps.fao.org/

  FAO Catalogue on-line http://www4.fao.org/faobib/

  UNCAPS (library catalogs, indexes and abstract databases, library holdings, links to full-text resources, and archives) http://uncaps.unsystem.org/

  World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) http://www.fao.org/waicent/search/default.htm

• Organisation Internationale de La Francophonie http://www.francophonie.org/oif.cfm
• Forum Fisheries Agency (of the South Pacific Forum) (FFA) http://www.ffa.int/www/index.cfm
• Free Trade Area of the Americas http://www.ftaa-alca.org/
• G8 (Group of 8) Information Centre http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/
• G20 (Group of 20) http://www.g20.org/public/index.php?page=greeting&skin=1
• G77 (Group of 77) http://www.g77.org/
• General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) http://www.fao.org/fi/body/rfb/GFCM/gfcm_home.htm
• Global Environment Facility Secretariat http://www.gefweb.org
• Gulf Cooperation Council http://www.gcc-sg.org/home_e.html
• Helsinki Commission: see Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
• International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/

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[I-N]

• Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) http://www.iotc.org/English/index.php
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) http://www.iadb.org/exr/ENGLISH/index_english.htm

  Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Unit http://www.iadb.org/int/sta/ENGLISH/staweb/index.htm

   

• Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) http://www.iattc.org/
• Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia http://www.igc.ch/
  Asylum Statistics http://www.igc.ch/frstatistics.htm
• Inter-governmental Authority on Development http://www.igadregion.org/
• International Atomic Energy Agency http://www.iaea.org/index.html
• International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission (IBSFC) http://www.ibsfc.org/
• International Bureau of Education http://www.ibe.unesco.org/index.htm

  IBE Databanks http://www.ibe.unesco.org/Inf_Doc/Nat_reps/natrep.htm

• International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) http://www.bipm.org/
• International Civil Aviation Organization http://www.icao.org/
• International Coffee Organization http://www.ico.org/

  Market Information http://www.ico.org/markinf.htm

• International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) http://www.iccat.es/
• International Copper Study Group (ICSG) http://www.icsg.org/
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea http://www.ices.dk/

  ICES Marine Data Centre http://www.ices.dk/hl/ICES_Marine_Data_Centre.htm

• International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) http://www.interpol.int/
• International Development Association http://www.worldbank.org/ida/
• International Finance Corporation http://www.ifc.org

  Publications http://www.ifc.org/publications/

• International Fund for Agricultural Development http://www.ifad.org/
• International Hydrographic Organization http://www.iho.shom.fr/
• International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) http://www.unidroit.org/
• International Labour Organization (ILO) http://www.ilo.org

  Access ILO Databases http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm

  Labordoc http://labordoc.ilo.org/

  LABORSTA (Labour Statistics Database) http://laborsta.ilo.org

• International Maritime Organisation http://www.imo.org/
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) http://www.imf.org/

  IMF Finances - Financial Data http://www.imf.org/external/fin.htm

  Publications http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm

Staff Papers http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/staffp/archive.htm

Working Papers http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/wp1_sp.cfm?s_year=2003&e_year=2003&brtype=default

• International Organization for Migration (IOM) http://www.iom.int/
• International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/default.htm
• International Rubber Study Group http://www.rubberstudy.com/

  Rubber Statistics http://www.rubberstudy.com/STATS.htm

• International Seabed Authority http://www.isa.org.jm/en/default.htm
• International Telecommunication Union http://www.itu.int
• International Trade Centre http://www.intracen.org/
• International Whaling Commission http://www.iwcoffice.org
  • Publications http://www.iwcoffice.org/publications/pubmain.htm
• Inter-Parliamentary Union http://www.ipu.org

  PARLINE Database [parliamentary, electoral system, and election results database] http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp

  PARLIT (bibliographic references on parliamentary law and practice) http://www.ipu.org/parlit-e/parlitsearch.asp

  Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp

• INTERPOL See International Criminal Police Organization
• Islamic Development Bank Group http://www.isdb.org/

• Latin Union http://www.unilat.org/
• League of Arab States http://www.arableagueonline.org/arableague/index_en.jsp
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency http://www.miga.org/
• Nordic Council and Council of Ministers http://www.norden.org/start/start.asp?lang=6
• North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. See Commission for Labor Cooperation
• North American Development Bank http://www.nadbank.org/
• North American Free Trade Agreement Secretariat (NAFTA) http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) http://www.nam.gov.za/index.html
• North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) http://www.nasco.int/
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) http://www.nato.int/home.htm

  On-line Library http://www.nato.int/docu/home.htm

   

• North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) http://www.neafc.org/
• North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) http://www.npafc.org/
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) http://www.pices.int/
• The Northern Forum http://www.northernforum.org/
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization NAFO http://www.nafo.ca/
• Nuclear Energy Agency http://www.nea.fr/

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[O-T]

• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie http://www.francophonie.org
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/

  Free on-line documents http://www.oecd.org/products/

  SourceOECD http://www.sourceoecd.org

  International Regulation Database http://www.oecd.org/subject/regdatabase/

• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (The Chemical Weapons Convention Website) http://www.opcw.org/
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) http://www.osce.org/

  Documents Library http://www.osce.org/docs/index.htm

• Organization of American States (OAS) http://www.oas.org/

  Department of Initernational Law http://www.oas.org/dil/Department_of_International_Law.htm

• Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) http://www.oapecorg.org/

  Publications [includes Annual Statistical Report] http://www.oapecorg.org/Publications.htm

• Organization of the Islamic Conference http://www.oic-oci.org/
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) http://www.opec.org/
• OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic http://www.ospar.org/eng/html/welcome.html
• Paris Club http://www.clubdeparis.org/en/index.php
• Parlamento Amazónico http://www.webmediaven.com/parlamaz/
• Pacific Islands Forum http://www.forumsec.org.fj/
• Pacific Salmon Commission http://www.psc.org/index.htm
• Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) http://www.paho.org

  Databases http://www.paho.org/Project.asp?SEL=PR&LNG=ENG&PRGRP=databases

  Health Data http://www.paho.org/Selection.asp?SEL=HD&LNG=ENG

• Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) http://www.cpps-int.org/espa/index.html
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community http://www.spc.org.nc/
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation http://www.saarc-sec.org/
• South Centre (An Intergovernmental Organization of Developing Countries) http://www.southcentre.org/
• South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission http://www.sopac.org.fj/

  Virtual Library http://www.sopac.org.fj/Data/virlib/index.html

• Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization http://www.rihed.seameo.org/index.html

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[U-V]

• UNIDROIT See International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
• Universal Postal Union http://www.upu.int/
  

 

UNITED NATIONS

• The UN Specialized agencies (autonomous organizations joined to the UN through special agreements) are inter-filed United Nations http://www.un.org/english/

Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations http://www.unsystem.org/

Site Index http://www.un.org/site_index/

UN Documentation Centre http://www.un.org/documents/

• Organization Chart of the United Nations System http://www.un.org/aboutun/chart.html
• Dag Hammarskjold Library http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/
• Departments of the UN Secretariat http://www.un.org/Depts/index.html
• Other offices, programmes and regional commissions http://www.un.org/Depts/otherprgs.htm
• Global Issues on the UN Agenda http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/agenda.htm Online Publications http://www.un.org/Pubs/onlinepubs.htm
  
• Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York http://www.undp.org/missions/
• The Specialized Agencies http://www.un.org/Overview/brief.html#agencies
• United Nations Cartographic Section http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
• United Nations CyberSchoolBus Resource Source [easy-to-use, basic facts databases] http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.asp
• United Nations News Centre http://www.un.org/News/
• United Nations Press Releases - Full Text Search http://www.un.org/News/Press/
• United Nations Office at Geneva http://www.unog.ch/
• United Nations Office at Vienna http://www.un.or.at/
• United Nations web sites organized by area of interest Economic and Social Development http://www.un.org/esa/
• Subject Index to Economic and Social Development http://www.un.org/esa/subindex/

UNITED NATIONS REGIONS

• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) http://unescap.org/

Statistics Division http://unescap.org/stat/index.htm

• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) http://www.escwa.org.lb/
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) http://www.uneca.org/
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) http://www.unece.org/Welcome.html

Statistical Data on Internet http://www.unece.org/stats/data.htm

• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN

Statistical Information http://www.eclac.org/estadisticas/default.asp?idioma=IN

 

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/

UNICEF Statistics http://www.unicef.org/statis/

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre http://www.unicef-icdc.org/

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) http://www.unctad.org/Templates/StartPage.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1
  International Trade Center http://www.intracen.org/
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) http://www.undp.org/

Human Development Report Statistics http://www.undp.org/hdro/statistics.html

Publications http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/index.html

United Nations International Drug Control Programme http://www.undcp.org/

Research http://www.undcp.org/research.html

• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) http://www.unfpa.org/

The State of World Population http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

United Nations Population Information Network http://www.un.org/popin/

Population/Reproductive Health Portal http://www.developmentgateway.org/pop

United Nations Statistics Division http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/

WomenWatch: The UN internet gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

WomenWatch Statistics and Indicators http://www.un.org/womenwatch/resources/stats.htm

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) http://www.unrisd.org/index.htm

  UNRISD Publications http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/publ.htm

• Peace and Security http://www.un.org/peace/index.html
• United Nations Peacekeeping 1948-2002 http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/timeline/index.html
• Human Rights http://www.un.org/rights/index.html
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc.ch/index.html
• International Court of Justice (ICJ) http://www.icj-cij.org/
• International Criminal Court (ICC) http://www.icc-cpi.int/php/index.php

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court http://www.un.org/law/icc/

• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia http://www.un.org/icty/
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) http://www.ictr.org/
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) http://www.ifad.org/

  Online Publications http://www.ifad.org/doc/index.htm

• Humanitarian Affairs http://www.un.org/ha/index.html
• Office of the UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS) http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ohrlls/default.htm
• Reliefweb http://www.reliefweb.int
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) http://www.unhcr.ch/
• Statistics http://www.unhcr.ch/statist/main.htm
• REFWORLD (a collection of full-text databases)http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/welcome.htm
• Maps http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/maps/maps.htm
• International Law http://www.un.org/law/index.html
  United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network http://www.uncjin.org/
  Statistics and Research Sources http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html
  UN Documents http://www.uncjin.org/Documents/documents.html
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) http://www.unesco.org
UNESBIB: Bibliographic records of UNESCO documents and publications and Library collections http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/unesbib.html
UNESCO Institute for Statistics http://unescostat.unesco.org/uis/index.html
  UNESDOC: Access to UNESCO full-text documents http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) http://www.unido.org
Full-text reports available on-line http://www.unido.org/doc/100426.htmls

 

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[W-Z]

• Western European Union http://www.weu.int/
• The World Bank Group http://www.worldbank.org/

Data and Maps http://www.worldbank.org/data/

Transition: the newsletter about reforming economies http://www.worldbank.org/transitionnewsletter/

World Bank Publications http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/

World Bank Research http://econ.worldbank.org/

World Development Sources (full text search and retrieval system which contains a collection of World Bank reports) http://www-wds.worldbank.org/

• World Conservation Union (IUCN) http://www.iucn.org/
• World Customs Organization http://www.wcoomd.org
• World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org

Statistics Page http://www.wfp.org/InfoServs_Home.html

• World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int/

Information Sources http://www.who.int/home/info.html

WHO Statistical Information System http://www.who.int/whosis/

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) http://www.wipo.int/eng/main.htm

UNCAPS (library catalogs, indexes and abstract databases, library holdings, links to full-text resources, and archives) http://uncaps.unsystem.org/

• World Meteorological Organization http://www.wmo.ch/
• World Trade Organization (WTO) http://www.wto.org/

Download material http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/doload_e/doload_e.htm

Goods Schedules http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/schedules_e/goods_schedules_e.htm

Members and Observers http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org6_e.htm

Trade Statistics http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

Website directory http://www.wto.org/english/info_e/site_e.htm

• World Tourism Organization (WTO) http://www.world-tourism.org