Certains évènements et conférences autour des droits de l’homme et du développement humain sont publiés sur notre blog Humanitarian Texts.
Some events and conferences concerning human rights and human development are published on out blog Humanitarian Texts.
we have a new blog telling our maraton for ECOSOC status … since 2002
The blog will be updated continuously, today (Jan. 27) you find a new post with 6 new UN’s questions, to be answered to satisfy the ECOSOC Committe. If you are interested, you may find all under the link below.
Linked with our new blog ECOSOC for AEHRF and the NGO world.
The UN wrote us 9 letters on the following dates with questions concerning our NGO (concerning our goal to receive ECOSOC status):
17th dec. 2002, 9th jan. 2003, 17th dec. 2003, 10th Jan. 2005, 10th May 2005, 24th jan. 2006, 13th May 2007, 24th Jan. 2008, 4th June 2008;
and the UN wrote us 3 notes/memos:
We submitted our request for ECOSOC and answered the above UN letters on the following dates:
19th Jan. 2002, 3rd Jan 2003, 18th dec. 2003, 20th May 2004, 11th Jan 2005, 12th May 2005, 17th April 2006, 2nd May 2006, 8th June 2007, 11th March 2008;
and we sent 1 memo and 1 letter:
memo to UN of K.N.Pandita of 04/01/2005 = UN noted as of 01/04/2005;
letter to UN of Maqsooda Shiotani of 01/04/2003 = UN noted as of 04/01/2003.
Comment by Heidi: Further, our members were personally in New York during the deliberations concerning ECOSOC status for NGOs. Additional papers were sent by fax to answer directly their questions.
The commentary of an European member deciding these status’: ” … if you would have your headquarter in Geneva, instead in Delhi, you would have had your status since years”.
You got it?
Note prepared by Dr. Kashinath Pandita, Secretary General of the Headquarter, Delhi, and Vice President of the Geneva Office of our NGO named Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum AEHRF:
- NGOs are initially registered in some country. ECOSOC status, a privilege, is the aspiration of almost all of them.
- ECOSOC has set forth a procedure for NGOs to apply for its status. This enables them to participate in the GA sessions and the sessions of various subsidiary bodies of the UN. It gives them exposure and provides them a vast field for activity. NGO can become the eyes and ears of the civil society.
- Existing procedure is time consuming and rather complicated. It has to be simplified and made time bound
- ECOSOC NGO Committee that recommends applications behaves in a wayward manner. It is oblivious of the implications of its waywardness. The NGO applicants are made to go through an ordeal. The Committee begins with suspecting each applicant and then behaving with it like treating criminals in a court of law.
- The worst thing is politicizing of NGOs. If the country where an NGO is registered happens to be a political rival or antagonistic or ideological opponent of another member country, then the applicant NGO is doomed.
- Influential members in the NGO Committee can manage to obtain status for the applicants in whom they are interested. It takes a few minutes to see them through whereas others with no political support are made to cool their heels for any period say 5 to 10 years. This procrastination defeats the aims and objectives of the UN.
- The Committee is supposed to take decisions in a democratic manner. But allowing politics to supervene, the Committee has laid down the tradition of obtaining consensus of opinion. When that consensus is not forthcoming, applications are deferred year after year. This leads to loss of faith in the UN principles. This trend needs to be arrested.
- The importance of NGOs as a bridge between the civil society and the managers of administration is bound to increase with the passage of time. Therefore it is necessary that the process of admitting NGOs to ECOSOC status is simplified and streamlined.
Go to our NGO Blog and find all informations about under this link.
Beginning
In 1992, Panun Kashmir, the premier organization of the exiled religious minority community in the Indian part of Kashmir, asked me to take to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva the case of violation of human rights of our three hundred thousand people forcibly thrown out of their age old habitats in Kashmir valley by the religious extremists. I thought of making big news of the event in Geneva.
(last review on March 28, 2009)
This is the starting page of our web presence. We are the Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum AEHRF with the headquarter in Delhi, since October 2003 we have an office in Geneva/Switzerland, and since March 28, 2006 a second office in Denver/USA.
Our main goal is in our name: defending the human rights worldwide, without discriminations.
Our publishing blogs are:
Managed by Kashi Nath Pandita, writing himself the contributions: Kashmir and IDPs, Geopolitics, and History - past and present. He supervises also Views and Opinions and, together with the Geneva-Office, this Homepage.
Are managed by K.L. Chowdhury M.D., living in Jammu/Kashmir/India: the Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, the Socio-political & Cultural blog, and his Personal & Literary blog.
On the Berhane Tewolde’s Development Blog are published some news from the UNEG world.
Are managed by Heidi Barathieu-Brun: the World Peoples Blog on wich we present every day a person doing good and interesting work for this humanity. Then NGOs - we & others, Humanitarian Texts, Economy and Society, which all four receive daily news.
Our concept: work together for a better world.
