Non-governmental organizations


ECOSOC/6731-NG0/822

Concluding the first week of its regular session for 2016, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today deferred action on 52 applications for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and reviewed 404 new quadrennial reports, taking note of 362 of them while deferring action on 42 others.

NGO/816-PI/2137

The Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations Committee associated 19 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), including one organization which received probationary association.  This brings to 1,439 the number of NGOs working with the Department in the area of communications and outreach.