Non-governmental organization

Jonathan Lopez Salazar Karen Estephania Hernandez Ramirez Daniela Perez Nardoni

What is an NGO?
A non-governmental organization is any non-profit, voluntary citizens' group which is organized on a local, national or international level. Task-oriented and driven by people with a common interest, NGOs perform a variety of service and humanitarian functions, bring citizen concerns to Governments, advocate and monitor policies and encourage political participation through provision of information.

Types of ONGS
Some are organized around specific issues, such as human rights, environment or health. They provide analysis and expertise, serve as early warning mechanisms and help monitor and implement international agreements. Their relationship with offices and agencies of the United Nations system differs depending on their goals, their venue and the mandate of a particular institution.

 NGO type can be understood by orientation and level of co-operation. NGO type by orientation Charitable orientation; Service orientation; Empowering orientation; NGO type by level of co-operation Community- Based Organization; City Wide Organization; National NGOs; International NGOs;

 Non-governmental organizations are a heterogeneous group. A long list of acronyms has developed around the term "NGO". These include: BINGO, short for Business-friendly International NGO or Big International NGO; National NGO: A non-governmental organization that exists only in one country. This term is usually rare due to the globalization of Non-governmental organizations, which causes an NGO to exist in more than one country.[6] CSO, short for civil society organization; DONGO: Donor Organized NGO; ENGO: short for environmental NGO, such as Greenpeace and WWF NNGO, short for Northern non governmental organization. IDCIs, short for international development cooperation institutions. SNGOs, short for Southern nongovernmental organizations

 SCOS, also known as social change organizations GONGOs are government-operated NGOs, which may have been set up by governments to look like NGOs in order to qualify for outside aid or promote the interests of the government in question; INGO stands for international NGO; Oxfam, INSPAD INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT "A European Think Tank For Peace Initiatives" ; QUANGOs are quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (The ISO is actually not purely an NGO, since its membership is by nation, and each nation is represented by what the ISO Council determines to be the 'most broadly representative' standardization body of a nation. That body might itself be a nongovernmental organization; for example, the United States is represented in ISO by the American National Standards Institute, which is independent of the federal government. However, other countries can be represented by national governmental agencies; this is the trend in Europe.)

 TANGO: short for technical assistance NGO; TNGO: short for transnational NGO; The term emerged during the 1970s due to the increase of environmental and economic issues in the global community. TNGO includes non-governmental organizations that are not confined to only one country, but exist in two or more countries. GSO: Grassroots Support Organization MANGO: short for market advocacy NGO NGDO: non-governmental development organization

Greenpeace
Is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: Catalysing an energy revolution Defending our oceans Protecting the world's ancient forests Working for disarmament and peace Creating a toxic free future Campaigning for sustainable agriculture

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is present in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Their vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. They are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations.

Amnesty International

They are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations.

Human Rights
The doctrine of human rights in international practice, within international law, global and regional institutions, in the policies of states and the activities of non-governmental organizations has been a cornerstone of public policy around the world.

Human Rights
Many of the basic ideas that animated the movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War. Culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.