A large number of international organizations and other bodies use the title secretary general or secretary-general for their chief administrative officer. For the political science journal, see: International Organization An international organization (also called intergovernmental organization) is an organization of international scope or character. ...

International intergovernmental organizations

• The Andean Community (CAN) has a secretary general.
• The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has a secretary-general.
• The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has a secretary-general.
• The Commonwealth of Nations has a secretary-general.
• The Council of Europe (COE) has a secretary general.
• The Council of the European Union has a secretary-general.
• The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has a secretary general.
• The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has a secretary-general.
• The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has a secretary general.
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has a secretary general.
• The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) had a secretary-general.
• The Organization of American States (OAS) has a secretary general.
• The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has a secretary general.
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has a secretary-general.
• The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has a secretary general.
• The Pacific Islands Forum has a secretary general.
• The United Nations (UN) has a secretary-general.
• The Western European Union (WEU) has a secretary-general.

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International nongovernmental organizations

• Amnesty International (AI) has a secretary general.
• Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) has a Secretary-General

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is not part of a government and was not founded by states. ... Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... The Anglican Consultative Council is one of the four Instruments of Unity of the Anglican Communion. ...

National bodies and other organizations

• The Milice (Vichy France's secret police) was run by a secretary general.
• Hezbollah is run by a secretary-general.

A recruitment poster for the Milice. ... Presidential flag of Vichy France Vichy France, or the Vichy regime was the de facto French government of 1940-1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation of World War II. Now known in French as the Régime de Vichy or Vichy, during its existence it referred to itself as L... A secret police (sometimes political police) force is a police organization that operates in secret to enforce state security. ... The Hezbollah flag Hezbollah (Arabic ‮حزب الله‬, meaning Party of God, for other designations or alternative spellings, see name part of this article) is a Shia Islamist group in Lebanon founded in 1982 to fight the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon. ...

Duties of a secretary-general

See also: general secretary The term General Secretary (alternatively First Secretary) denotes a leader of various unions, parties or associations. ...