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| | Researching IGOs and NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Generally a public or governmental organization created by treaty or agreement between states. |
 | | Many IGOs issue publications and documents that may be of interest to the legal researcher: founding documents (treaties, charters, statutes), treaties where the IGO is a party, treaties where the IGO is the sponsor, legal acts, proceedings, documents issued by the IGO's legislative body, and decisions of the IGO's adjudicative body. |
 | | NGOs tend to publish many reports, newsletters, and documents that may not have a great deal of legal weight, but are valuable to the researcher because they document country, economic, and social conditions and provide analysis which indicate the sources or problems or issues. |
| www.ll.georgetown.edu /intl/guides/orgs (1547 words) |
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