Curated category
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
- League of NationsThe League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation built to keep the peace, and its founder won a Nobel Prize for it before failing…
- International Organization for MigrationThe International Organization for Migration was born in the wreckage of the Second World War, in a Europe where nearly a million people had nowhere to go.
- International Energy AgencyThe 1973 oil crisis sent shockwaves through industrialized nations, causing fuel shortages and economic instability. Two months after a preliminary draft…
- Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationThe Shanghai Cooperation Organisation covers at least 24 percent of the world's total land area and is home to 42 percent of the world's people.
- South Asian Association for Regional CooperationThe South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation was born on the 8th of December 1985, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, inside a hall where the leaders of seven…
- Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationThe Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was born on the 19th of February 1955, in Bangkok, and dissolved on the 30th of June 1977, also in Bangkok.
- International Renewable Energy AgencyIn 1980, the Brandt Report first suggested that an international renewable agency might be necessary. Decades of advocacy followed from groups like Eurosolar…
- Commonwealth of Independent StatesThe Commonwealth of Independent States came into existence on the 8th of December 1991, born inside a forest reserve roughly 50 kilometres north of Brest…
- United NationsAt 20:07 UTC on the 24th of October 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence. The moment came when the five permanent members of the Security…
- European University InstituteThe European University Institute opened its doors to 70 researchers in 1976. This moment marked the culmination of a decades-long effort that began at the…