IIO timeline

By zitamolnar

  • Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine

    First international organisation, created because of technical reasons, it is still existing showing that older, centralised and technical IOs live longer

  • International Telegraph Union (ITU

  • Universal Postal Union

  • International Bureau of Weights and Measure

  • International Railway Congress Associatio

  • Commercial Bureau of the American Republics -- Pan- American Union (1910)

  • International Office of Public Hygiene

  • The League of Nations

    its main goal was to maintain international cooperation and achieve peace and security, unsuccessful in preventing WWII -- No comprehensive prohibition on the use of force

  • Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)

    The first standing international court; model for the ICJ

  • Declaration by the United Nations

    only signing the declaration, not the actual UN

  • Bretton Woods Conference

    Economic institutions / international financial order

  • Establishment of the United Nations

    Replaced the League of Nations; cornerstone of modern IO system

  • Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) attached to the UN Charter

    established as a principal UN jurisdictional organ, descendant of the PICJ

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    foundation for modern human rights law and basis for later treaties

  • Geneva Conventions revised

    codified modern humanitarian law, key to defining war crimes later prosecuted by the ICC

  • European Coal and Steel Community

    Predecessor of the EU

  • Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

    Defines how treaties are made, interpreted, and terminated; limits unilateral domestic claims (Connally Amendment)

  • Rome Statue adopted

    Codified crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression

  • ICC comes into force

    Permanent court for individuals; complements domestic jurisdictions