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The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...
Some are global in nature, while others are regional; they may be multilateral or bilateral in character. Some are responsible for broad areas of environmental policy, regulation, and implementation; others focus on very specific issue areas. This article lists notable supranational environmental agencies, by region.
The Pakistan-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission is a joint commission between the governments of Pakistan and Russia that focuses on promoting economic, scientific, technical, and cultural cooperation between the two countries. The commission was established in 2008 and meets regularly to discuss and implement cooperation agreements in ...
An organization that specializes in debt collection is known as a collection agency or debt collector. [1] Most collection agencies operate as agents of creditors and collect debts for a fee or percentage of the total amount owed. [ 2 ]
U.S. state laws on fair debt collection generally fall into two categories: laws which require persons who are collecting debts from consumers to be licensed, registered or bonded in order to collect from consumers in their states, and laws that protect consumers from specific unfair practices by debt collectors, which may include collection agencies and sometimes original creditors. [2]
The first level is UNCITRAL itself (the Commission), which holds an annual plenary session held in alternate years in New York City and Vienna. The 2021 session was held in Vienna, the 2022 session was held in New York. [3] The second level involves the intergovernmental working groups which develop the topics on UNCITRAL's work program.
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent, non-partisan legislative branch agency headquartered in Washington, D.C. MedPAC was established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105–33). The BBA formed MedPAC by merging two predecessor commissions, the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC), established ...