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Break Free From Plastic
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Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)
Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)
CARE
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Campax
Caritas Internationalis
Catholic Relief Services
Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International
Center for Global Development
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Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Center for Social Awareness Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE)
Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine
Civil Rights Defenders
Clean Arctic Alliance
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe
Climate Justice Now
Codex Alimentarius Commission
Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Common Fund for Commodities
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission
Computer Aid International
Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Conference on Disarmament
Control Arms Coalition
Council of Europe (COE)
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Development Pathways
EarthRights International
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT International)
Ethics Network of Multilateral Organizations
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
European Commission (E.C.)
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
European Community
European Council
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
European Economic Area (EEA)
European Economic Community
European Environment Agency
European Investment Bank (EIB)
European Investment Fund (EIF)
European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
European Parliament
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
European Union (E.U.)
European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Fair Trials International
Financial Stability Board (FSB)
Financial Stability Forum (FSF)
Fondation Passerelle
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Fortify Rights
Freedom House
Freedom Now
Fridays For Future (FFF)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Gavi the Vaccine Alliance
Geneva Group
German Marshall Fund
Gideons International
Global Blockchain Business Council
Global Carbon Project
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Global Food Research Program
Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
Global Freedom of Expression
Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria
Global Ocean Forum
Global Rights
Global Witness
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Government Blockchain Association
Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Greenpeace International
Group of 20 (G-20)
Group of 77 (G77)
Group of Seven (G-7)
Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
High Seas Alliance
Homeless World Cup Foundation
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Humane Society International (HSI)
IOTA Foundation
IceCube Collaboration
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
Institute for International Trade
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Interactions Collaboration
Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services (IBCS)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO)
Intergovernmental Organization for Marketing Information and Technical Advisory Services for Fishery Products in the Asian and Pacific Region
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC)
International Anti-Corruption Conference
International Arctic Science Committee
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS)
International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH)
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Blockchain Association
International Blockchain Federation
International Blockchain Real Estate Association
International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO)
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)
International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC)
International Council for Science
International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS)
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
International Criminal Court (ICC)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
International Crisis Group
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
International Decentralized Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
International Economic Association
International Electrotechnical Commission
International Energy Agency (IEA)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Food and Beverage Alliance
International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Glacier Commission
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
International Institute for Sustainable Development
International Labor Organization (ILO)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Medical Corps (IMC)
International Military Tribunal (IMT)
International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Organization of Legal Metrology
International Post Corporation
International Refugee Organization (IRO)
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT)
International Seabed Authority (ISA)
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
International Space Station (ISS)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Telecommunications and Satellite Organization
International Textile & Clothing Bureau
International Trade Center
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
International Whaling Commission (IWC)
International Women's Strike
Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
Joint Inspection Unit (JIU)
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Kofi Annan Foundation
League of Nations
Libra Association
Meteorological World Congress
Mission Innovation
Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
Munich Security Conference
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
NCD Alliance
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC)
Nobel Women’s Initiative
Non-Aligned Movement
Nordic Council of Ministers
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Northern Research Forum
Norwegian Red Cross
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
ONE Campaign
Ocean Conservancy
Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Open Society Foundations
Organization for Cooperation between Railways
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Oxfam International
PEN International
Paris Club
Paris Peace Forum
Partners in Health
Partnership on AI
Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia
Pew Charitable Trusts
Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group
RED
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21)
Reporters Without Borders
Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Roman Catholic Church
Samaritan's Purse
Save the Children
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Solar Impulse Foundation
South Center
Southern Ocean Observing System
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Syrian Center for Statistics and Research
Syrian Network for Human Rights
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
TMT International Observatory (TIO)
The Elders
The Nobel Foundation
Transparency International
Trump Organization
U.N. Alliance of Civilizations
U.N. Appeals Tribunal
U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)
U.N. Association of the United States of America
U.N. Climate Change
U.N. Commission on Human Rights
U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
U.N. Correspondents Association (UNCA)
U.N. Counterterrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
U.N. Democracy Fund
U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
U.N. Development Program (UNDP)
U.N. Dispute Tribunal
U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
U.N. Environment (UNEP)
U.N. Environment Assembly
U.N. Ethics Office
U.N. General Assembly (UNGA)
U.N. Habitat
U.N. Human Rights Committee
U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC)
U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
U.N. Migration (IOM)
U.N. Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
U.N. Office in Nairobi
U.N. Office of Counterterrorism (UNOCT)
U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)
U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
U.N. Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (OSAPG)
U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA)
U.N. Security Council (UNSC)
U.N. Watch
U.N. Water
U.N. Women
U.N. Working Group on Enforced Disappearances
U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
UEFA
UNAIDS
UNESCO
UNICEF
UNRWA
Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of International Associations (UIA)
United Nations (U.N.)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
University of the Arctic (UArctic)
Violations Documentation Center
WWF International
Walk Free Foundation
Water.org
Wikimedia Foundation
Women's Refugee Commission (WRC)
World Bank Group
World Blockchain Organization
World Council of Churches
World Customs Organization (WCO)
World Economic Forum (WEF)
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
World Food Program (WFP)
World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)
World Health Assembly (WHA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
World Justice Project
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Nuclear Association
World Obesity Federation
World Ocean Council
World Ocean Network
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Uighur Congress
World Wide Web Foundation
A.U. Convention on Corruption 2006
Addis Ababa Action Agenda 2015
Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean 2018
Albufeira Convention 1998
Armistice
Armistice of 1918
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Atlantic Charter 1941
Basel Convention 1992
Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances 2012
Berne Convention 1887
British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) 1965
Budapest Treaty 1977
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity 2003
Charter of the United Nations 1945
Chemical Weapons Convention 1997
Christchurch Call
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 1996
Congress of Vienna 1815
Contract for the Web
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972
Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables 1888
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003
Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency 1986
Convention on Biological Diversity 1993
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons 1983
Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions 1999
Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident 1986
Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic 1967
Convention on International Civil Aviation 1947
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 1975
Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space 1976
Convention on Special Missions 1969
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 1981
Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972
Convention on the Non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity 1968
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons including Diplomatic Agents 1973
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1951
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2008
Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 1994
Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific 1983
European Charter of Fundamental Rights 2000
European Constitution 2004
European Convention on Human Rights 1953
European Economic Area (EEA) 1994
General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) 1948
Geneva Conventions 1949
Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration 2018
Global Compact on Refugees 2018
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries 1988
Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs 1928
Hague Convention 1907
Hague Declaration 1899
ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment 2019
ILO Declaration of Philadelphia 1944
ILO Employment (Transition from War to Peace) Recommendation 1944
ITU Constitution and Convention 1959
ITU Constitution and Convention 1992
Insured Letters Agreement 1974
Intelsat Agreement 1971
Inter-American Convention Against Corruption 1997
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 2005
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network 2009
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty 1987
International Convention Against Doping in Sport 2007
International Convention for Safe Containers 1972
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 1948
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1980
International Convention on Load Lines 1968
International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1984
International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships 1969
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1969
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1976
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1976
International Health Regulations 2007
International Plant Protection Convention 1952
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 2001
Istanbul Convention 2014
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) 2015
Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol 2019
Korean War Armistice Agreement 1953
Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change 2005
Launch Registration Convention 1976
Lausanne Climate Declaration 2019
Liability Convention 1972
Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration 1958
Lisbon Treaty 2009
Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs 1979
MARPOL Convention 1983
Macolin Convention 2019
Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks 1979
Marrakesh Treaty 2013
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 1989
Moon Agreement 1984
Nagoya Protocol 2014
Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol 1982
Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia and the Pacific 1988
New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) 2011
New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants 2016
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks 1957
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA) 1994
North Atlantic Treaty 1949
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) 1970
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 2002
Ottawa Declaration 1996
Outer Space Treaty 1967
Paris Agreement 2015
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1979
Partial Test Ban Treaty 1963
Patent Cooperation Treaty 1978
Patent Law Treaty 2000
Plant Protection Agreement for the Asia and Pacific Region 1956
Postal Parcels Agreement 1974
Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) Treaty
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks 1989
Ramsar Convention 1975
Refugee Convention 1951
Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies 1983
Rescue Agreement 1968
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 2004
Simla Agreement 1972
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks 2009
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2004
Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement 2001
Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification 1979
Subscriptions to Newspapers and Periodicals Agreement 1974
Svalbard Treaty 1925
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2002
Toronto Declaration
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11) 2018
Treaty of 15 October 1804
Treaty of Amity 1957
Treaty of Bern 1874
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis 1559
Treaty of Lausanne 1924
Treaty of Lisbon 2009
Treaty of Paris 1814
Treaty of Paris 1856
Treaty of Rome 1957
Treaty of Versailles 1920
Treaty on the European Union 1992
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union 1957
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017
U.N. Convention Against Torture 1987
U.N. Convention against Corruption 2005
U.N. Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 2003
U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity 1993
U.N. Convention on the High Seas 1962
U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982
U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification 1996
U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 1994
UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution 1983
UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1972
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1988
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1967
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1964
Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character 1975
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 2005
Warsaw Pact 1955-1991
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