Explain the Different International Organizations.

international organizations have been defined in such a way as to provide an empirical means of ordering many kinds of organizations. They have proved to be a convenient working tool. Reference is made to these types in the subsequent discussion. Detailed refinements and exceptions to the definitions given below, are discussed in the description of each type in the Yearbook:

A: Federations of international organizations

B: Universal membership organizations

C: Intercontinental membership organizations

D: Regionally defined membership organizations

E: Organizations emanating from places, persons, proprietary products or other bodies

F: Organizations having a special form, including foundations and funds

G: Internationally-oriented national organizations

H: Inactive or dissolved international organizations

J: Recently reported bodies -- not yet confirmed

K: Subsidiary and internal bodies of other internal bodies

N: National organizations

R: Religious orders, fraternities and secular institutes

S: Autonomous conference series (without secretariat)

T: Multilateral treaties and agreements

U: Currently inactive non-conventional or unconfirmed bodies

3.1 Conventional international organizations (Types A-D)

The approach to the selection of organizations for inclusion in this Yearbook was first developed by the Union of International Associations for the Annuaire de la Vie Internationale (1908-1909, 1910-1911). It was further developed after 1945 for the early editions of the Yearbook of International Organizations. The approach was endorsed by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in 1950 and in 1953 (see Appendix 10). The Economic and Social Council, in considering these matters in 1950, itself clarified the distinction between intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations as follows:

These are grouped together in Types A to D. They are autonomous international governmental and non-governmental organizations...