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...