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United Nations General Assembly observers
- International Criminal CourtOn the 17th of March 2023, the International Criminal Court did something it had never done before. Its judges issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin…
- Council of EuropeThe Council of Europe was signed into existence on the 5th of May 1949, by ten nations meeting in London - and yet most people today have never heard of it.
- 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.
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeThe Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, known as the OSCE, traces its origins to a specific date in a specific Finnish city: the 3rd of…
- International Olympic CommitteeOn the 23rd of June 1894, Pierre de Coubertin gathered delegates in Paris and created an organization that would one day govern the sports lives of billions.
- International Committee of the Red CrossThe International Committee of the Red Cross began with one man staring at a battlefield and making an unexpected choice.
- OECDThe OECD was born from the rubble of a continent. In April 1948, European nations shattered by World War II gathered under the banner of the Organisation for…
- 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…
- ASEANThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations cannot force any of its members to change a single domestic law. That is the rule, written into how the bloc works.
- 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…
- Eurasian Economic UnionThe Eurasian Economic Union was born on the 1st of January 2015, but its founding idea was spoken aloud more than two decades earlier by a single man…
- European UnionThe European Union spans 4,233,255 square kilometres and holds more than 450 million people as of 2025. Its member states produced a nominal gross domestic…
- Holy SeeThe Holy See is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City, and under international law it stands as a sovereign juridical entity.