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6. Evolving Roles of NGOs in Member State Decision-Making in the UN System

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Abstract

NGOs have become involved in virtually all issues on the agendas of organizations throughout the UN system, with their presence facilitated by 90 liaison offices. They play a diversity of roles in public sessions of decision-making bodies and also perform a variety of roles in private meetings in which preparations arc made for public meetings. At the same time, their involvements with secretariats involve an even broader range of activities, including regular meetings, representation on committees, involvement in symposia, receiving papers posted on UN websites, joint research, joint implementation and monitoring of UN programs and even standing in for UN agencies. Involvement of NGOs in global governance is growing in dynamic ways at a time in which financial restraints are severely limiting capacity of the UN system to respond.

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Footnotes
1
This text was first published as: “Evolving Roles of NGOs in Member State Decision-making in the UN System”, Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2003, 407–424. Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group. Permission to republish this text was kindly granted on 30 Janaury 2013 by Taylor & Francis in the USA.
 
2
UN ECOSOC Resolution E/1993/80.
 
3
UN ECOSOC Resolution E\1996X297.
 
4
UN General Assembly Resolution A/52/L.71.
 
5
UN General Assembly Resolution A/53/150.
 
6
UN General Assembly Resolution A/53/L.68.
 
7
The last six items on NGO relations with secretariats are drawn from Rice and Ritchie (1995: 262).
 
8
Copenhagen (1995).
 
9
UN General Assembly Resolution A/53L.73.
 
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Metadata
Title
Evolving Roles of NGOs in Member State Decision-Making in the UN System
Author
Chadwick F. Alger
Copyright Year
2014
Book
Chadwick F. Alger

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-00508-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-00509-6

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00509-6_6