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IGO en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of intergovernmental organization /international governmental organization.
    • The Union of International Associations, a coordinating body, differentiates between the more than 250 international governmental organizations (IGOs), which have been established by intergovernmental agreements and whose members are states, and the approximately 6,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), whose members are associations or individuals. Encyclopedia Britannicahttps://www.britannica.com/topic/international-organization
    • The congressmen said in a January press release that the change "targets harmful and inherently antisemitic" boycott efforts undertaken at IGOs while also "extending protections already in place for boycotts instigated by foreign countries." […] "AIPAC strongly supports the IGO Anti-Boycott Act which makes clear the U.S. will not countenance U.N. instigated boycotts of our ally Israel." 2025 May 4, Jason Lemon, “MAGA Leaders Defend Americans' Right to Boycott Israel”, in Newsweek:

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Coordinates

MNC · NGO

Hypernyms

organization