At the
founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, there were
representatives of 1,200 voluntary organizations. Chapter X: Article 71 —
Charter of the United Nations — Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
— Codification Division Publications
In some countries
and circles, NGOs are called non-profits, NPOs (non-profit organizations). NGOs
are a form of ‘civil society’ partnership, as the U.N. Agenda 2030 calls them,
private/public partnership.
NGOs spring
up in many ways. They can be controlled by citizens with an agenda of a certain
‘vision’ and mission. Funding can come from private individuals, the state,
other NGOs, rich individuals, and small and large companies with an agenda.
Some NGOs
claim that they are autonomous and impartial and claim that they receive no
official funding but only donations and volunteer work. Each country has
different steps and requirements to allow an NGO to exist.
Generally an
NGO must state their purpose and ideology; the rules that governs it; how it is
operated and governed; must choose a name, find headquarters (many U.N.
affiliated NGOs are located in Switzerland); NGOs must choose their scope of
action, i.e., local, state, national, international; what activities will be carried
out in order to achieve stated objectives; who are the founding members and
their roles; where does the financing come from; who makes decisions; is the
NGO an association, foundation, or group; draft the founding act, the official
document; request a tax number for commercial transactions; and register the
NGO with Social Security in order to pay its workers.
NGOs started
in the early 1800s. According to Nalinakumari and MacLean, the first structured
NGO was the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was formed to ban
slavery in the British Empire. By 1914 there were 1083 NGOs. Women’s suffrage movement
and unions had a significant role in the establishment of NGOs.
Chapter 27
of U.N. Agenda 21 of 1992 recognized the “vital role of NGOs and other major groups
in Sustainable Development (SD),” the lynchpin of U.N. Agenda 21 and U.N. Agenda
2030, an U.N. agenda that controls every facet of how we live and how companies
operate.
The Globalization
of the 20th century significantly lifted the role of NGOs.
Non-governmental organizations were “developed to emphasize humanitarian
issues, developmental aid, and sustainable development.”
Social NGOs are
seen as “popular movements of the poor.” Others think that NGOs are “imperialist
in nature,” and “operate in a racialized manner in third world countries.”
Whatever their nature, NGOs are now a powerful transnational network of vast
interests and citizens are not invited to participate in their decision-making,
they must obey.
How powerful
are NGOs? According to insiders, the “NGO sector is now the eighth largest economy
in the world valued at over $1 trillion a year globally.” NGOs, alleged to
employ 19 million paid workers and numerous volunteers, spend significantly on
development each year.
NGOs and trade
unions are inter-connected. ‘Civil society’ activism led by trade unions
enabled the rise of NGOs. Some NGOs were established by unions and the term “social
movement unionism” was coined.
If the labor
movement were repressed in a country, NGOs would take over as proxies. Unions
and NGOs exchanged money to support each other’s projects.
NGOs are a strange
mixture of alliances, government entities, charities, businesses, various
denominational churches, radical groups, conservative groups, industry lobby
groups such as the International Chamber of Commerce, and other groups. Funding
is hard to trace as it comes from many directions.
The first
international NGO, the Anti-Slavery Society, was formed in 1839. The Red Cross
grew out of the Franco-Italian war and was established in 1863; Save the
Children after World War I; and Oxfam and CARE after World War II.
The biggest
NGO today is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with almost $30 billion in
endowments. Some of the better-known NGOs are:
-
Save
the Children
-
Oxfam
International
-
Doctors
without Borders
-
World
Vision
-
International
Rescue Committee
-
Catholic
Relief Services
-
CARE
International
-
Amnesty
International
-
Plan
International
Recently,
NGOs have become tied to governments via funding arrangements and service
contracts. Even state and local governments have gotten involved with NGOs in
the so-called public-private partnerships.
According to
Global Policy, Doctors Without Borders received 46 percent of its income from
government sources. CARE International got 70 percent of its budget from
government contributions. A substantial portion of Oxfam’s income came from the
British government and the EU. World Vision received $55 million from the U.S.
government. https://archive.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/176-general/31937.html
NGOs have exploded in numbers in response to globalization.
There are few developments today that do not involve some kind of
private/public partnership investment by ‘civil society.’ Nobody knows who or
what the ‘civil society’ is, but it is not hard to find those involved, i.e., most
politicians, D and R, academics, journalists, Hollywood stars, billionaires, rich
athletes, United Nations members from third world countries, and famous authors
with leftist leanings.
NGOs, with generous funds from our own government, have
become tools of control and oppression of populations across the globe,
including of American citizens. USAID provided huge funding, using our taxpayer
dollars generously funneled by our own government to various programs that were
not approved by American citizens.
NGOs facilitate and implement nefarious programs that go
against our own interests, including the highly orchestrated illegal immigrant invasion
of the United States from the Darien Gap in Panama.
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