The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this morning continued its review of applications from civil society groups seeking formal relations with the Economic and Social Council, recommending consultative status for five organizations.
This morning the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, a 19-member standing body of the Economic and Social Council, continued considering requests by non-governmental organizations for reclassification of their consultative status with the Council.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this afternoon recommended that one organization be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and that another be reclassified to a different status category, as it continued its two-week session.
This afternoon the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued to review groups applications for consultative status in the Economic and Social Council, and also considered requests for reclassification by those groups that already had been granted consultative status.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, a 19-member standing body of the Economic and Social Council, this afternoon recommended that 13 organization be granted special consultative status with the Council.
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this morning began its resumed 1999 session, making recommendations on a series of applications by non- governmental organizations (NGOs) for accreditation with the Economic and Social Council.
Three-Day Conference to Conclude This Afternoon
The revolution of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the globalization process were defining phenomena of our times, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning at the opening meeting of the fifty-second annual NGO Conference, organized by the Department of Public Information (DPI).
As a result of globalization, governments had nowhere to hide, Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told the fifty-second annual Department of Public Information/Non-governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference this afternoon.
