FAWCO's Report to the Economic and  Social Council of the United Nations for the Period 1997 through 2000

The Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO) was founded in 1931 with the belief that enlightened women working together in different countries throughout the world could do much to achieve peace. FAWCO is today an international network of 77...

Collective Responsibility: Society at its Best

Paula D, NGO Director

“At the heart of volunteerism are the ideals of service and solidarity and the belief that together we can make the world a better place. In that sense, we can say that volunteerism is the ultimate expression of what the United Nations is all about.”
– UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

 

The Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas, an NGO with consultative status to ECOSOC, and with 17,000 members in 33 countries, sincerely regrets the decision of the U.S. Administration to withhold the U.S. Congress approved funding for the United Nations Population Fund. FAWCO, as an organization concerned with education, the environment, human rights...

Update from  Mark Malloch Brown

Pam Perraud, NGO Director

Things are changing for the better at the UN according to Kofi Annan’s new Chief of Staff, the former head of UN Development Program, Mark Malloch Brown. He was guest speaker at the Foreign Policy Association held at McGraw Hill’s Headquarters in New York on October 6, 2005.

Everyone was curious...

 

Attendance at Official UN Meetings

 

 

 

 

Who Can Attend UN Meetings? 

Due to recent changes in UN security regulations and severe space limitations at the main UN  headquarters in NY, Geneva and Vienna,  attendance at UN meetings by NGO representatives are no longer as open as they previously were.

 

Access to the UN and official meetings...

• Accredited
• Commission on the Status of Women
• Conference
• CONGO
• Consultative Status
• DPI
• ECOSOC
• NGO
• NGO Forum
• Observer Status
• Platform for Action

 

Accredited This is being officially recognized as an organization affiliated with the United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, established in 1946 as a functional commission of the...