Эволюция консультативного статуса международных неправительственных организаций при Экономическом и Социальном Совете ООН

Abstract

The article is devoted to the review of the evolution of the consultative relations between the United Nations and International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The importance of the partnership between the U N and NGOs is self-evident. The recent mushrooming of the number of NGOs leads to questioning of the adequacy of the arrangements establishing the consultative status created in 1945. The article first lists and discusses main criteria for the organization to be recognized as NGO. Then it proceeds with the description of the elaboration, formal establishment and substance of the consultative arrangements regime under the Charter's Article 71 and consecutive ECOSOC Resolutions including ECOSOC Resolution 1296 (XLIV). The second part of the article looks at the activities of the ECOSOC Working Group on NGOs that had led to the reform of 1996, shaped by the ECOSOC Resolution 1996/31.