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Union of International Associations (UIA)
Union des associations internationales (UAI)
Unión de Asociaciones Internacionales
Union der Internationalen Verbände
Unie van de Internationale Verenigingen
| Headquarters |  |
SG Jacques de Mévius, UIA Secretariat, Rue Washington 40, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. T. (32 2) 640 18 08. Fax 643 61 99. E-mail: uia@uia.be
| Alternative address | |
Pres Ms Anne-Marie Boutin, Agence pour la promotion de la création industrielle - APCI, 24 rue du Charolais, F-75012 Paris, France. T. (33 1) 43 45 04 50. Fax 43 45 10 76. E-mail: amboutin@apci.asso.frUN Representative Cyril Ritchie, CIC Case 20, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. T. (41 22) 733 67 17. E-mail: c.ritchie@fiig.orgURL http://www.uia.org/
| Founded | |
1 June 1907, Brussels (Belgium), as Central Office of International Associations -- Office central des institutions internationales, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize 1913) and Paul Otlet, Secretary-General of the then International Institute of Bibliography -- Institut international de bibliographie, set up 2 Sep 1895, Brussels, currently International Federation for Information and Documentation, with which activities were closely associated. Officially founded under patronage of the Belgian government on 29 Jan 1908. Became a federation under present name in 1910, at 1st World Congress of International Organizations. Statutes adopted 1908; modified 1910, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1986, 2007. Registered by Belgian Royal Decree, 2 July 1920. Worked closely with Institut international de la paix, Monaco, which had been set up in 1903 and produced the 1905, 1906 and 1907 editions of the Annuaire de la Vie internationale; collaborated with the Institute on the 1908-1909 edition of this publication, which subsequently evolved into the Yearbook of International Organizations. The work of the UIA contributed to the creation, 10 Jan 1920, of League of Nations, and, 9 Aug 1925, of International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. During the 1920s, the UIA created International University
| Aims | |
Facilitate the evolution of the world-wide network of non-profit organizations; collect and disseminate information on these bodies and their inter-relationships; present this information in both established and experimental ways to promote understanding of the role of non-profit organizations in global society; promote research on the legal and administrative problems common to these bodies.
| Structure | |
General Assembly (every 2 years). Executive Council, consisting of 15 to 21 members including President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary-General, Treasurer.
| Languages | |
English, French.
| Staff | |
8 full-time, paid; 7 part-time, paid; 2 part-time, voluntary.
| Finance | |
Sources: sale of publications; membership fees; research and service contracts. Budget (2010): euro 621,000
| Consultative status | |
United Nations Economic and Social Council (Special); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Formal Associate Relations); International Labour Organization (Special List). Special Resolution of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, 20 July 1950, established cooperation between the United Nations and the Union of International Associations for publication of Yearbook of International Organizations.
| IGO relations | |
Cooperates in specific fields with: Council of Europe. Contact with: European Community; European Commission, especially Information Society DG (1997-2000). Associated with DPI of the United Nations
| NGO relations | |
Contact maintained with all international nongovernmental organizations eligible for inclusion in the Yearbook of International Organizations. Special links with: Federation of European and International Associations Established in Belgium; Federation of Semi-Official and Private International Institutions established in Geneva; International Association of Professional Congress Organisers; Union des organisations internationales non-gouvernementales établies en France; conferences of consultative status nongovernmental organizations; bodies using the Union's secretariat facilities; those with which it has co-editing or co-publishing arrangements and with Associate Members. Member of: Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations; Conference of International Non-Governmental Organizations in Official Relations with UNESCO. Links with: Mundaneum
| Activities | |
Collects, analyses and publishes data on international governmental and non-governmental organizations, their meetings, publications, and principal officers. Undertakes studies and surveys on the nature and activities of global civil society actors. In collaboration first with Mankind 2000, then with Institute of Cultural Affairs International, and most recently with UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, developed databases on world problems with which international organizations are preoccupied, strategies envisaged by them in response to these problems, and the human values and concepts of human development underlying these strategies. Promoted an international convention on the legal status of international associations which resulted in the signature at the Council of Europe, 1986, of European convention on the recognition of the legal personality of international non-governmental organizations. Encourages creation of federations of international bodies with secretariats in a particular location, and contact between such bodies, so as to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. In this regard, proposed, 1949, the setting up of a International Service Centre for and about Nongovernmental Organizations, which never materialized as such but whose functions are in part fulfilled by International Association Centre, which UIA was instrumental in setting up, 20 Aug 1982, Brussels (Belgium).
| Events | |
General Assembly 24 up to 1973; Paris (France) 1974, Geneva (Switzerland) 1976, Brussels (Belgium) 1980, Brussels (Belgium) 1984, Brussels (Belgium) 1986, Brussels (Belgium) 1988, Brussels (Belgium) 1990, Brussels (Belgium) 1992, Brussels (Belgium) 1994, Brussels (Belgium) 1996, Brussels (Belgium) 1998, Brussels (Belgium) 2001, Brussels (Belgium) 2003, Brussels (Belgium) 2005, Brussels (Belgium) 2007, Brussels (Belgium) 2009. World Forum of Transnational Associations Brussels (Belgium) 1980. Meeting of International Congress Organizers and Technicians Dusseldorf (Germany FR) 1959, Lausanne (Switzerland) 1960, Rome (Italy) 1963, Copenhagen (Denmark) 1966, Barcelona (Spain) 1970, Kyoto (Japan) 1975. Symposium Turin (Italy) 1969, Milan (Italy) 1972, Paris (France) 1974, Geneva (Switzerland) 1976, Brussels (Belgium) 1984. Associate Members Meeting 22 up to 2002; Brussels (Belgium) 2003, Brussels (Belgium) 2004, Brussels (Belgium) 2005, Brussels (Belgium) 2007, Brussels (Belgium) 2008, Brussels (Belgium) 2009, Brussels (Belgium) 2010
| Publications | |
International Congress Calendar (4 a year). Yearbook of International Organizations (47th ed 2010) - in 6 vols: Organization Descriptions and Cross References; International Organization Participation; Global Action Networks; International Organization Publications; Statistics, Visualizations and Patterns; Who's Who in International Organizations. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential - in 3 vols (4th ed 1994). Specialized directories: World Guide to Logotypes, Emblems and Trademarks of International Organizations (1997); World Guide to Religious and Spiritual Organizations (1996); International Biographical Dictionary of Religion (1994); International Association Statutes Series (1986); African International Organization Directory and African Participation in Other International Organizations (1984); Arab, Islamic International Organization Directory and Arab and Islamic Participation in Other International Organizations (1984); International Organization Abbreviations and Addresses (1984); Intergovernmental Organization Directory (1984). Annuaire des organisations internationales (4th ed 1980); Yearbook of International Congress Proceedings (2nd ed 1962-69); Documents for the Study of International Non-Governmental Relations (20 vols issued); International Congress Science Series in 12 vols, in English, French; World Forum Proceedings: from international to transnational (1983); The Identity of African Associations and the Participation of NGOs in Development in the Context of a New World Order (1985). Information Services International Congress Calendar Online; Yearbook of International Organizations Online; Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Online. All online databases are interlinked
| Members | |
Active: individuals, limited to 250 and subject to election by General Assembly. Currently 108 individuals in 25 countries: Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Tunisia.
Americas: Canada, Chile, Peru, USA.
Asia: India, Japan, Laos, Thailand.
Australia / Pacific: Australia.
Europe: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
Associate (80): corporate bodies or individuals interested in the aims and activities of the UIA and wishing to associate themselves with its work by payment of an annual membership fee. Subject to approval by the Executive Council. Includes 2 organizations listed in this Yearbook: European Cities Marketing; International Congress and Convention Association
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(F) Organizations having a special form, including foundations and funds(y) With international organizations as members
