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1821:, UEA had to deal with the difficulty of having national organizations and individual members in communist countries. Additionally, the work of Esperanto organizations in Western countries was sometimes influenced by the Cold War: In the early 50s, the American Esperanto leader George Allan Connor denounced dissenting members of his national organization as communists. His national organization and he as an individual were eventually thrown out of UEA. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its allied states between 1989 and 1991 completely changed the international situation. 1529: 2078: 2064: 2050: 2035: 57: 1205: 45: 971: 312: 1129: 1706: 1770: 1602: 1473: 1752:
faced a catastrophic financial situation and decided in early 1936 to depart Geneva for London. In London, the capable activist Cecil C. Goldsmith wanted to become the new director (secretary), and for certain currency reasons UEA could exist significantly more cheaply in Britain than in Switzerland.
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The Komitato board initially had eight (since 1910: ten) members, with a president and a vice-president. One of the board members served as director; from 1908 to 1920 this was Hector Hodler. The director installed delegates in towns with fewer than 20 members. These were 94 percent of the delegates,
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In 1933, at the Cologne congress, UEA and the national organizations made UEA the common or umbrella organization of the international Esperanto movement. In 1934 the UEA members accepted new UEA statutes. The 'new UEA', as it was called, was (and still is) a federation of national associations but
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The national (and local) associations initially saw the UEA not as a supporting resource but as a threat, as undesirable competition. They were afraid of a division in the movement between the traditional groups on the one hand and the UEA members on the other. Also, propaganda and lessons were the
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other organizations in (official) collaboration with UEA. They do not send representatives to the Komitato but can have a room at the World Congress. Examples are Esperantist vegetarians, Esperantist Catholics and Esperantist communists. Some of them choose not to be affiliated because of financial
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As the representatives of the national organizations by far outnumbered the others, it is right to call UEA in essence a federation. But all officeholders of UEA had to be individual members, and the core services of the association, such as the Yearbook, were still reserved to individual members.
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of 1908. Hodler tried to give those 'specialists' a home in the UEA. Instead of founding specialized associations of their own, with separate bulletins and conventions, he wanted them to be UEA members and have 'fakoj' (compartments). He also thought of partner organizations — for example, hotels
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The first national Esperanto organization was founded in 1898 in France, originally as a potential international association. In 1903 the second one followed, in Switzerland. Within a couple of years, many of the still existing national organizations came into existence. Since 1933-1934 they have
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Esperantists agreed that the whole movement must support two common international tasks: international documentation, propaganda in countries without movements of their own, lobbying at international organizations, organizing the world congresses, etc. Esperantists did disagree on which or what
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The highest organ of UEA was the Komitato. It gathered representatives from the national organizations; the numbers depended on the size of the national organization. Other representatives were elected by the delegates, depending on the number of delegates. A third group of representatives was
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A hastily organized and secret campaign, led by former president Stettler, made it impossible for the Bastien-led board to legally move the headquarters away from Switzerland. After several months of discussions and a referendum, the Bastien board members and the Komitato members left the UEA
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The final blow to the Helsinki system came in 1932 when UEA did not pay its contributions for the common budget, and the same was true for some of the national associations. The British, German and French associations, the largest ones, took up the initiative to found a new organization,
1189:. It was started in 1905 by Paul Berthelot, three years before UEA was founded. UEA founder Hector Hodler took it over in 1907 and made it the official UEA magazine in 1908. In 1920 he left the magazine to the association. Since the 1950s it has had a paid editor-in-chief. Next to 999:(associate members), i.e., members of organizations that joined UEA. These members are administered by their respective organizations, which can be national or specialist bodies. This kind of indirect membership is, for the individual person, more symbolic than direct membership. 1242:), which attracts 1,500–3,000 people to a different city each year, is held under the direction of UEA. The first congress took place in 1905, and since 1933–1934 the UEA has had responsibility for the annual event. Since 2009, World Congresses have been held in 1544:), a delegate. The delegate was tasked with collecting membership fees and sending them to the Geneva headquarters, and was expected to represent the other local members on the international level. The totality of delegates held referendums, and they elected the 1747:
Although in 1933-1934 it first seemed that the transition could happen in harmony, at the 1934 congress in Stockholm some UEA functionaries were not re-elected. In anger, UEA president Eduard Stettler and others resigned. The new board with president
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In the decades after the war, the staff grew. Before the war, it was common to have a director with only one or two assistants. After the war, the UEA at times employed ten or more people (e.g. a congress manager, a book seller, a librarian.)
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This Helsinki system lasted for only a couple of years. The heads of the movement saw that at the world congresses there was considerable overlap, and three separate groups were discussing essentially the same subjects: the
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and his followers, an international cause such as Esperanto must be supported by a unitary, truly international association, and UEA members should found separate organizations on national and local levels.
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of 1905 produced only a general manifesto about the essence and neutrality of the movement. The organizing team passed the torch to organizers of a next congress the year after, which eventually created a
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The modern UEA is the result of a decades-long process of several attempts to give the Esperanto movement a sound foundation. The first Esperanto associations were local clubs, of which the one in
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UEA publishes books and has the largest mail-order Esperanto bookstore in the world (with over 6,000 book titles, CDs and other items). It also maintains an information centre and an important
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elected by the two first groups; this opened the possibility to include 'experts' who were not linked to a national organization or popular among the delegates. Since 1947, one speaks of the
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task of the national associations (often federations of local groups). They did not like the perspective that new Esperantists, created by the traditional groups, would be picked up by UEA.
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together; administering the common budget and doing the operational business for common international tasks, also representing the movement as a whole. It had a paid secretary.
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individual members join the association directly, paying a fee to the Rotterdam headquarters or to the chief delegate in their country. These members receive UEA services.
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UEA since then is the legal heir of the former Helsinki organizations, such as the International Central Committee. The association since then also organizes the annual
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The original UEA was purely based on individual membership. The members in a given locality, e.g. a town, were supposed to have UEA member conventions and elect a
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speakers, with 5,501 individual members in 121 countries and 9,215 through national associations (in 2015) in 214 countries and in official relations with the
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Esperanto speakers are divided by different subjects they are interested in. In those early years, some specialist organizations developed — for example, the
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congress. The discussions eventually created the so-called Helsinki system, on which UEA and the national associations agreed at the congress of 1922 in the
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The national associations then tried to build up an international organizational level of their own. A first attempt took the form of
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organization should be responsible for these tasks, how it should collect the money and how it should decide on spending the money.
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and national and specialist affiliated organizations, just as the UEA itself. A TEJO volunteer works at the Rotterdam headquarters.
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editor is a paid position. After 1956, the association in 1980 was again (and since then for the last time) given new statutes.
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and, as necessary, at other interstate and international organizations and conferences. The organisation is a member of the
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installs a general director and sometimes a director as well. The general director and staff work at the UEA headquarters,
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In 1908, a group of young Esperanto speakers founded an international association based on individual, direct membership:
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The youth section TEJO has two affiliated specialist groups, the Esperantist cyclists and Esperantist rock music fans.
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rule. Decades later, in 1959, the Cuban association was refused because its statutes respected the leading role of the
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neutral organizations, which can join UEA in the same way as national organizations. In Esperanto they are called
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Especially the last prerequisite caused serious problems, e.g. to the German national association submitting to
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According to its 1980 statutes (Statuto de UEA), the Universal Esperanto Association has two kinds of members:
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plus one more for every 1,000 national members, to the Komitato. Most national organizations have only one
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be neutral, meaning having no political or religious aims, and being open to all citizens of the country.
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Hodler projected an organization fit to contain tens or hundreds of thousands of members, the so-called
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Specialist organizations are similar to the national organizations. They are divided into two groups:
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is the main publication to inform UEA members about everything happening in the Esperanto community.
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Front page of the IEL organ in 1937, announcing a house in Heronsgate becoming the IEL headquarters
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which would give a discount to UEA members in exchange for an advertisement in the UEA Yearbook.
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UEA board members and other distinguished UEA members at the inauguration of the 2015 congress
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When UEA accepted national organizations in 1933-1934 for the first time, it required them to
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The international Esperanto movement survived World War II with its IEL headquarters in
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Twice a year, in spring and autumn, UEA headquarters in Rotterdam holds an Open Day.
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In 1920, the Esperanto movement gathered again for the first time since the war, at
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so the UEA was not so much a democracy but a circular, self-renewing system of
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For every 1,000 individual members, one member can be chosen to the Komitato.
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the language committee (later the Academy of Esperanto), subsidized by the
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In addition to the UN and UNESCO, UEA also has consultative relations with
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Die neutrale Sprache. Eine politische Geschichte des Esperanto-Weltbundas
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Die neutrale Sprache. Eine politische Geschichte des Esperanto-Weltbundes
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Die neutrale Sprache. Eine politische Geschichte des Esperanto-Weltbundes
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Die neutrale Sprache. Eine politische Geschichte des Esperanto-Weltbundes
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Die neutrale Sprache. Eine politische Geschichte des Esperanto-Weltbundes
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was enlarged, becoming a kind of parliament, and a board with the name
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altogether and established, in September 1936, a new association, the
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The Grabowski Prize is a prize awarded to young authors writing in
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One year later, at the Geneva world congress, Zamenhof created a
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In May 2011, UEA officially became an Associate Member of the
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reasons; others are non-neutral and therefore cannot join UEA.
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the congress committee, administered and subsidized by the
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International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm)
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also of individual members directly administered by UEA.
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Hodler was still the owner and publisher of his magazine
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of the national associations and the six members of the
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literature in general, was awarded the Grabowski Prize (
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The founding years of the Esperanto movement, 1888–1914
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serves as a sort of parliament and elects a board, the
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Attempts at organization in the interbellum, 1920–1933
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Ulrich Becker, a publisher of literature in and about
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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
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World Esperanto Association


Hector Hodler
Esperanto
Rotterdam
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Esperanto
Duncan Charters
Ivo Lapenna
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UNESCO
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Esperanto flag
Esperanto
Language
Grammar
Phonology
Orthography
Braille
Vocabulary
Etymology
History
Zamenhof
Proto-Esperanto
Unua Libro
Dua Libro
La Esperantisto
Fundamento de Esperanto

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