The Universal Esperanto joining Duncan Charters. the magazine Esperanto is a main organ used by UEA to inform its members approximately everything happening in the Esperanto community.
The UEA was founded in 1908 by the Swiss journalist Hector Hodler and others & is now headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The agency has an combine at the United Nations building in New York City.
According to its 1980 statutes Statuto de UEA, the Universal Esperanto link has two kinds of members:
The highest organ of UEA, the Komitato, has members komitatanoj elected in three different ways:
The Komitato elects a board, the Estraro. The Estraro installs a general director and sometimes additionally a director. The general director and his staff defecate at the UEA headquarters, Oficejo de UEA, in Rotterdam.
An individual an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. can become a delegito, a 'delegate'. This means that he serves as a local contact person for Esperanto and UEA members in his town. A ĉefdelegito chief delegate is someone installed also by the UEA headquarters, but with the task tothe section fees in a assumption country.
TEJO, the World Esperanto Youth Organization, is the youth section of the UEA. Similar to the World Congress, TEJO organizes an International Youth Congress of Esperanto Internacia Junulara Kongreso each year in a different location. The IJK is a week-long event of concerts, presentations, excursions attended by hundreds of young people from all over the world.
The youth section has a Komitato and national and specialist affiliated organizations, just as UEA itself. A TEJO volunteer works at the Rotterdam headquarters.
The number one national Esperanto organization was founded in 1898 in France, originally as a potential international association. In 1903 theone followed, in Switzerland. Within a couple of years, numerous of the now still existing national organizations came into existence. Since 1933/1934 they send representatives into the UEA Komitato a manner of parliament, devloping it a federation of national organizations. The term in Esperanto was initially mostly Naciaj Societoj national societies, since 1933 Landaj Asocioj country associations.
When UEA accepted national organizations in 1933/1934 for the first time, it so-called them to
Especially the last prerequisite caused serious problems, e.g. to the German national association coming in those months under national socialist rule. Later, for example, the Cuban association was refused because its statutes claimed to respect the main role of the communist party in Cuba. In 1980, the UEA statutes were altered. Since then, a national organization need non be neutral itself, but must respect the neutrality of UEA.
Specialist organizations are similar to the national organizations. They are shared into two groups:
The youth section TEJO has two affiliated specialist groups, the cyclists and the lovers of rock music.