Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations


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Continuing into the second week of its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended that the Economic and Social Council grant special consultative status to 27 organizations — including recommending that one group’s status be reinstated — while deferring action on 40 others.

ECOSOC/6694-NGO/811

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 15 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, but denied that privilege to the United States-based Freedom Now — which works to free prisoners of conscience through legal, political and public relations efforts — following a request for vote by the United States.