World Esperanto Association

The World Esperanto Association (Esperanto: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 121 countries (as of 2008) and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO. In addition to individual members, seventy national Esperanto organizations are affiliated with UEA. Its current president is the Canadian professor Mark Fettes. The magazine “Esperanto” is the main organ used by UEA to inform its members about everything happening in the Esperanto community.

UEA was founded in 1908 by the Swiss journalist Hector Hodler and others, and is now headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The organization has an office at the United Nations building in New York City.

Structure and affiliated organizations

According to its 1980 statutes (Statuto de UEA), the World Esperanto Association has two kinds of members: