This includes both non governmental organizations (NGOs) and national human rights institutions.

This includes both non governmental organizations and national human rights institutions.

National human rights institutions would be allowed to make statements on the same basis as non governmental organizations.

Even within the NGO community, human rights advocacy NGOs have a higher percentage of women as members and on their governing bodies.

These non governmental organizations also cooperate closely with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Welcoming the valuable contributions made by intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and national human rights institutions to the work of the Ad Hoc Committee,

Panel discussion on The Human Rights Council , with the High Commissioner for Human Rights (organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the NGO Committee on Human Rights)

Panel discussion on The Human Rights Council , with the High Commissioner for Human Rights (organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the NGO Committee on Human Rights)

National Council on Family Relations

Panel discussion on Human rights learning at the community level (organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the NGO Committee on Human Rights)

Notes with appreciation the efforts of non governmental organizations and the increasing role of national human rights institutions in assisting internally displaced persons and in promoting and protecting their human rights

Qatar was determined to strengthen fundamental human rights, and had recently set up a national commission on human rights, which coordinated activities with OHCHR and other intergovernmental and non governmental organizations.

Capacity building of AIHRC and NGOs

Stressing the importance of the active participation of non governmental organizations in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee and the important contribution of non governmental organizations to the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities,

Non governmental organizations advocating for women's rights are largely concentrated in Freetown and they also lack resources.

Generally the NGOs already have texts of important human rights treaties.

Human rights libraries had been set up. Non governmental organizations (NGOs) were also being encouraged to take up the cause of human rights, and their number currently totalled over 5,000, twice the figure in 2000.

Other NGOs attending were the Kharkiv Centre for Women Studies, the NGO Group for Convention on the Rights of the Child and 3D Trade Human Rights Equitable Economy.

Non governmental organizations

Organizations

Information exchange through a network comprised of the organizational elements established under the Stockholm Convention

FIAN Foodfirst Information and Action Network

The body must listen to and work closely with as wide a range of representatives of civil society as possible, including non governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and intergovernmental organizations.

In October 2004, the Inter American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing with a number of non governmental organizations concerning the issue of recommendations for the protection of human rights in the fight against terrorism.

It operates under the coordination of the Special Secretariat on Human Rights and it is its responsibility to integrate federal public policies and to articulate with non governmental organizations the society's participation.

To publicize the role of NGOs and promote a culture of support for their activities through donations.

Its working methods should build upon the strengths of the Commission on Human Rights, including the effective access and participation of non governmental organizations, its special procedures, rapporteurs and its subcommission.

The role of non governmental organizations

NGO participation

NGOs

d. Non governmental Organizations

(c) Non governmental organizations

Issuance of documentation for the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations

Zimbabwe

The Manitoba Human Rights Commission has requested that social condition be added as a protected ground under the Code and, in 2004, it hosted a Round Table Discussion on the issue with representatives of non governmental organizations involved in poverty and human rights issues.

Member States across regional groups as well as non governmental organizations expressed a wide spectrum of views on my proposals, in particular the establishment of a new Human Rights Council.

Sub Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Geneva) Sub Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Economic and Social Council, New York) NGO Committee on the Status of Women (New York) NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security (DPI NGO, New York) NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (New York)

(c) Foreign NGOs and intergovernmental agencies

OHCHR outlined its interest in collaborating with relevant NGOs, and the NGO representatives present indicated possible contributions through their colleagues and counterparts in the field as well as their possible participation in subregional meetings having this issue on the agenda, with a view to enhancing networking.

Pakistan Ali Sarwar Naqvi, Mian Zaheer Ahmed, Sikandar Ali, Mohammad Kamran Akhtar, Sajid Bilal

Co operation with NGOs.

ACTIONS OF NGOs

NGO Statements

Contributions from NGOs

NGOs and the Arria formula