International Organizations

The world's largest international organization, maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, and promoting social progress.

Leading global health authority coordinating international health efforts, directing and coordinating health policies, and providing technical assistance to countries.

Promotes peace through international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, and communication. Protects World Heritage sites and promotes cultural diversity.

Works in over 190 countries to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential from early childhood through adolescence.

Protects refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people. Assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement.

Leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Works to make agriculture more productive and sustainable.

Sets international labor standards, promotes rights at work, encourages decent employment opportunities, and enhances social protection.

The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Ensures trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.

Promotes policies to improve economic and social well-being of people around the world. Forum for governments to compare policy experiences and seek answers to common problems.

Premier forum for international economic cooperation. Brings together finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 countries plus the EU.

Informal forum of leading industrialized nations. Discusses and coordinates solutions to major global issues including economic policy, security, and climate change.

Coordinates and unifies petroleum policies of member countries. Ensures stabilization of oil markets to secure efficient, economic and regular supply to consumers.

International environmental treaty addressing climate change. Parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement, organizing annual COP meetings for climate action.

Landmark international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015. Sets goal to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. Provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change.

Leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes sustainable development within the UN system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

Global authority on the status of the natural world and measures needed to safeguard it. Publishes the Red List of Threatened Species.

Political and economic union of 27 European states. Developed an internal single market, common policies, and maintains the world's largest single-market economy.

Continental union consisting of 55 member states of Africa. Works to promote unity, solidarity, and economic development while protecting African interests.

Political and economic union of 10 Southeast Asian states. Promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, and sociocultural integration.

Regional intergovernmental organization of South Asian nations to promote economic and regional integration. Represents nearly 2 billion people.

South American trade bloc promoting free trade and fluid movement of goods, people, and currency. Fourth largest trading bloc in the world.

Regional intergovernmental political and economic union of Arab states bordering the Gulf. Promotes economic, security, cultural, and social cooperation.

International financial institution providing loans and grants to governments of low and middle-income countries for capital projects to reduce poverty.

Fosters global monetary cooperation, secures financial stability, facilitates international trade, promotes high employment, and reduces poverty around the world.

Regional development bank dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific through loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments.

Multilateral development bank focused on financing infrastructure projects to foster economic development and regional connectivity in Asia.

Intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states from Europe and North America. Implements the North Atlantic Treaty for collective defense.

Promotes peaceful uses of nuclear energy and inhibits its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. Implements nuclear safeguards.

Facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. Provides a global policing infrastructure supporting all 195 member countries.

Humanitarian organization providing protection and assistance to victims of armed conflict and other violence. Guardian of international humanitarian law.

International humanitarian medical non-governmental organization providing assistance in conflict zones and countries affected by endemic diseases.