NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

ALTE, an INGO with participatory status in the Council of Europe, was granted by the UN Committee on NGO's the title of NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). Non-governmental organizations attaining consultative status with ECOSOC, enter into a mutually beneficial working relationship with the United Nations. The rights and privileges enumerated in detail in ECOSOC resolution 1996/31 enable qualifying organisations to make a contribution to the work programmes and goals of the United Nations by serving as technical experts, advisers and consultants to governments and Secretariat; as advocacy groups, they espouse UN themes, implementing plans of action, programmes and declarations adopted by the UN. In concrete terms this entails their participation in ECOSOC and its various subsidiary bodies through attendance at meetings, and also through oral interventions and written statements on agenda items of those bodies.

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