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Author(s): Yamin F
Published: July, 2001
Publisher: Review of European Community and International Environmental Law
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9388.00271
Tags: Politics, Governance
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9388.00271/abstract
Abstract: The last ten years have seen an extraordinary rise in the level of international activities undertaken by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). UN and convention-based meetings are attended by record numbers of NGOs despite the proliferation of meetings and the high costs of travel. Rarely a month went by without the director of a major UN organization emphasizing the vital contribution of NGOs to delivering sustainable development. Notwithstanding the recent evidence of disruptive, sometimes violent, NGO protests at international summits such as Seattle and Gotenburg, papers examining the contribution of NGOs to international affairs abound in academic journals of various disciplines as do reports from think tanks examining ways to enhance the participation of NGOs in international regimes.
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