Ngo established by treaty

International Organizations
On the topic: International organisations
Student:Charos Shukurova
Teacher: Sanayeva G
Intergovernmental Organization IGO
Non-governmental Organization NGO

• established by treaty
• is a legal entity w/ int’l legal status - can enter into treaties
• probably has a legislative body (of gov’t representatives)
• may have a dispute resolution body
• may have an executive body (secretariat)

• no international legal status
• non-governmental representatives
• may serve consultative role to IGOs
• some are very influential

• facilitating and participating in treaty making
• producing soft law via non-treaty obligations from resolutions, declarations, etc.

IGOs play a role in creating international law:
international agencies
International agencies
Other subject headings to consider:

• intergovernmental cooperation
• international organization
• regionalism (international organization)
• or search by ind'l organization name

atomic
.int
But remember that many int'l orgs have a domain of .org instead of .int
Periodical Articles

• Lexis & Westlaw
• LegalTrac
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• Index to Legal Periodicals

http://www.ciaonet.org
Columbia International Affairs Online

• gathers working & occasional papers from research institutes, NGOs, foundations and conferences
• includes much full text even w/o a subscription

Directories and Research Guides
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/research/researchguides/wtogattresearch/index.htm
http://www.eisil.org/index.php?cat=15&t=sub_pages
provides information and links to helpful IGO and NGO resources
Concise source of information about int’l organizations, including IGOs, NGOs, and others:

• address
• Purpose
• Publications
• consultative status
• relations with IGOs

The Union of International Associations publishes the Yearbook of International Organizations and provides an online version (subscription only). Other resources on the site are free, however. The Law Library gets the yearbook in print occasionally and the Main Library gets it every year.
http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php
United Nations
United Nations http://www.un.org
UN Research: getting started
General Assembly Resolutions
sudan
PDF of the document
UN Official Documentation System - ODS
Draft documents are produced as “masthead” or “mimeographed” docs - we buy and shelve in the Basement by their document #, e.g., “A/55/582/Add.1”
Resolution #
Sample UN Document Numbers
Access UN - index to UN documents - does contain some full-text but is mostly just an index
Get to Access UN through GIL or through GALILEO
Access UN
Access UN
Use the document number to search further online or to find print copy in the Basement

• the official records for that UN entity, e.g., GAOR is the official records of the General Assembly, SCOR is for Security Council Official Records; or
• the online version
• See Rule 21.7.2
• The Main Library subscribes to the official records
• We purchase selected official records, including the supplement coming out after each GA session containing all resolutions and decisions from that session

• Bluebook requires that you cite UN resolutions to:

Supplement to GAOR containing resolutions
TITLE: Yearbook of the United Nations
The The Yearbook of the United Nations details the many activities of the Organization and its organs, programs and bodies, as they are carried out in all corners of the globe.
Each volume is fully indexed and reproduces all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions issued during the year.
Some UN resolutions available in Djonovich collection:
International Tribunals

• International Court of Justice
• Regional courts
• International criminal tribunals
• Int’l Tribunal for Law of the Sea

Books, articles, working papers, news re conferences and other int’l tribunal activities
Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 I.C.J. 136 (July 9).
Citation per Bluebook Rule 21.5.1:
Info re Westlaw database for ICJ decisions
Info re Lexis database for ICJ decisions
World Trade Organization
we have many titles in Law Library with this subject heading
WTO site is great source for documents
agreements
Dispute documents
e.g., panel reports
WTO database search by subject: click on the subject (issue)
Hyperlink
The downloaded document is in Word
Westlaw info page on WTO/GATT Panel Decisions
Lexis GATT/WTO panel decisions info note
EMAIL ALERTS and RSS Feeds
to keep you current
Just another representative IGO – look for these types of features on IGO sites
NGOs
http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir
Human Rights Documents database

• human rights documents of NGOs
• 1980 to late 2000s
• includes “grey” literature
• linked from Research Resources