The Europa directory of international organizations

COVERAGE:Provides detailed coverage of the main integovernmental groupings, plus concise information on 1500 others. For the United Nations and the other main non U.N. organizations entries provide detailed information on structure, membership and activities of all major offices, programmes and agencies. ARRANGEMENT:There are four main sections: Part 1 Background includes a chronology of the development of international organisations; Part 2 covers the United Nations in great detail; Part 3 most important non U.N. bodies arranged alphabetically; Part 4 short entries for other international bodies arranged in broad subject categories; Part 5 a Who's Who with biographical details. Each entry in parts 2 and 3 provides the formal and common names of the organisation, it's address including telephone, fax, e-mail and web-site details, a short description of the organisation, it's members, the organization structure as of 1999, activities, publications, subsidiary organisations; the texts of some agreements or declarations generated by the organisation are included and some international treaties. There is an index of organisations by name.