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The first time that non-governmental organizations were granted consultative status was in 1946, when 41 organizations were chosen. [3] By 1996, over 1000 NGO's were granted consultative status, and by the year 2000, there were 2050. [4] As of August 2021, there are a total of 5,591 organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC.
During different humanitarian experiences throughout the first Gulf War, and the Balkan war between 1991 and 1997, TSF’s founders realised that in addition to healthcare and food there was a real need for telecommunications in emergency contexts.
The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...
Aruba. Netherlands Radiocommunications Agency (NRA) Australia. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Austria. Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR-GmbH) Azerbaijan. Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies (Azerbaijan) (MINCOM) Bahamas.
According to the UN, an NGO is a private, not-for-profit organization which is independent of government control and is not merely an opposition political party. [65] The rapid development of the non-governmental sector occurred in Western countries as a result of the restructuring of the welfare state.
An international non-governmental organization (INGO) is an organization which is independent of government involvement and extends the concept of a non-governmental organization (NGO) to an international scope. NGOs are independent of governments and can be seen as two types: advocacy NGOs, which aim to influence governments with a specific ...
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe[1]) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest ...
An NGO that wishes to obtain consultative status at the United Nations must first submit an application online at the NGO Branch of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat. After the application is screened by the NGO Branch, it is reviewed by the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs.