FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Facilitate the evolution of the activities of the world-wide network of nonprofit organizations, especially nongovernmental or voluntary associations;
Promote understanding of how international bodies represent valid interests in every field of human activity or belief, whether scientific, religious, artistic, educational, trade or labour;
Enable these initiatives to develop and counterbalance each other creatively, in response to world problems, by collecting information on these bodies and their interrelationships;
Make such information available to them, and to others who may benefit from this network;
Experiment with more meaningful and action-oriented ways of presenting such information as a catalyst for the emergence of more appropriate organizations;
Promote research on the legal, administrative and other problems common to these international associations, especially in their contacts with governmental bodies.
It is hard enough for the international civil servant, or executive officer of an international N.G.O., to visualise clearly, as a whole and in perspective, the true shape and scale of international co-operation.
International organisations may associate with the U.I.A. and make use of its services by the simple device of taking out a subscription to the monthly magazine "InternationalAssociations" and furnishing regular reports of their activities.
Co-operation at the international level is rapidly ceasing to be the somewhat haphazard and disorganised affair that it used to be.
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