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CONGO
- Conference of NGO's in Consultative
Relationship
With the United Nations
The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations
in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)
is an independent, international, non-profit membership association of
non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It facilitates the participation of NGOs
in United Nations debates and decision-making. CONGO is most active at the
major UN centres of New York, Geneva and Vienna but its work stretches out to
all regions of the world.
CONGO was founded in 1948. Since then it has
relentlessly worked to ensure that NGO voices be heard throughout the
international arena. CONGO's role in mobilizing NGOs to form the first
worldwide NGO forum on human rights in 1968, its role in conceiving forms of
NGO participation in UN world conferences and its advocacy on behalf of NGOs at
UN Headquarters highlight CONGO's chief objectives: to ensure that NGOs be
present when governments discuss issues of global concern at the United Nations
and to facilitate NGO discussions on such issues.
CONGO does not take positions on substantive matters.
However, CONGO does provide, through special and ad hoc NGO Committees,
fora for discussion of substantive matters by its members with officials of the
UN Secretariat and UN system agencies, UN delegations and other experts.
NGOs with full CONGO membership status include national,
regional and international organizations in consultative status with the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). CONGO associate membership is open to
NGOs associated with the UN system but not holding that consultative status.
Members represent a large range of vital interests, in areas such as human
rights, gender, peace and disarmament, social justice, governance, environment
and sustainable development. CONGO and its members collaborate with the larger
community of NGOs through standing NGO committees, which follow issues that are
of key substantive interest relative to their mandates and objectives.
The Conference of NGOs:
CONGO
Membership Information
The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is a membership association, with more
than 500
members worldwide. Their work focuses on all issues under
discussion in UN fora.
CONGO is composed of full members and associate members:
If you are interested in becoming a CONGO member, please complete the application form and return it to the Conference of NGOs. After reception of one confirmation email from CONGO, you can proceed to the payment of the membership fee.
The CONGO Membership Directory is now available online. We would like to keep this database as up to date as possible, thus you are kindly requested to communicate all changes in your organization to: congony@ngocongo.org
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