Government Information on the Internet: A Primer - Multi-National Organizations

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Site Search IFLA www Home	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 Please send comments and suggestions about these pages to Government Information and Official Publications section.
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