Module 5

The role of NGOs at the United Nations

Video: “NGOs and the UN System”

Watch the following video lecture by Professor – “NGOs and the UN System”

Video transcript (.pdf, 86 kb).

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Reflection Question

NGOs contribute three crucial tasks: promoting and contributing to the drafting of international standards, providing information on human rights abuses to UN procedures, and campaigning for action. The UN human rights system is crucially dependent on NGOs to make it effective.