1. Non-governmental Organizations (NGO’s)
Organization that operates independently from any form of government
The term originated from the UN
NGOs are non-profit
Focus on human rights, environmental, or development work.

2. What is the UN? 51 countries started it in 1945
Today 193 countries are members, which includes almost every recognized country in the world

3. What does it do?
Every nation that joins must accept the UN charter, which outlines basic behaviors for states.
The UN does not make or enforce laws.

4. So, who is in the UN?
Although it started with just 51 countries, the UN now has 193 members, representing nearly every country on the planet.
Exceptions include:
The Vatican, which chooses to have an observer role only.
Kosovo
Taiwan
Antarctica is an international zone and is not represented.

5. What are the UN’s four goals?
Maintain world peace
Develop friendly relations between states
To cooperate in solving international problems
To harmonize the actions of all states

6. How is it organized? The UN has five major sections:
1 – The security council
2 – The general assembly
3 – The economic and social council
4 – The secretariat
5 – The International Court of Justice.
The first 4 are located in New York, the fifth is in The Hague.

7. What is the security council?
The security council is made up of 15 countries who are responsible for keeping world peace.
5 countries are permanent members (America, Russia, China, France and the UK) and the other 10 are made up of countries picked from each region of the planet, who each serve for a two year term.

8. What is the General Assembly?
The General assembly is where every country in the world has a chance to make statements and observations about world affairs, and vote on various UN issues.

9. What is the Secretariat?
The secretariat does the “paper work” for the UN, including researching issues and compiling data, tracking the success or failure of UN programs, and organizing conferences and training.

10. What does the Economic and Social council do?
They organize non-political and non-military UN programs like the UN International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and water treatment programs.

11. What is the International Court of Justice?
The ICJ regulates disputes concerning human issues that are not related to just one country (humanitarian law and war crimes) as well as international disputes about things like borders and pollution.
It is based in The Hague – South Holland, Netherlands

12. Millennium Development Goals
8 international development goals established by the UN in 2000.
All 193 members of the UN signed the United Nations Declaration in agreement with the common desire to achieve the 8 goals by 2015.
The World Bank, IMF and the African Development Bank also agreed to cancel $50 billion debt through funding from the member states.

13. Millennium Development Goals
Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger 
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health 
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases 
Ensure Environmental Sustainability 
Develop a Global Partnership for Development 

14. Millennium Development Goals
Canceled an additional $40–55 billion debt owed by LDC countries to allow them to re-channel money to social programs for improving health and education and for alleviating poverty.
The 2010 MDG Summit concluded with the adoption of:
Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Pledged over $40 billion in resources over the next five years.

15. Millennium Development Goals

16. Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Engage in policy development in Canada and internationally, enabling Canada's effort to realize its development objectives.

17. CIDA
Three priority themes are part of that agenda and guide CIDA's work:
Increasing Food Security
Securing the future of children and youth
Stimulating sustainable economic growth

18. North Africa and Middle East:
CIDA Locations
Americas:
Bolivia |
Caribbean Regional Program |
Colombia |
Haiti |
Honduras |
Peru
Asia:
Afghanistan |
Bangladesh |
Indonesia |
Pakistan |
Vietnam
Eastern Europe:
Ukraine
North Africa and Middle East:
West Bank and Gaza
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Ethiopia |
Ghana |
Mali |
Mozambique |
Senegal |
Sudan and South Sudan |
Tanzania

19. CIDA in Action

20. UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
UNHCR is an agency who is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide.

21. UNHCR
It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people

22. UNCHR
The number of refugees of concern to UNHCR stood at 10.5 million at the beginning of 2011, down slightly from a year earlier.
UNHCR seeks to reduce situations by encouraging states to create conditions which allow for the protection of human rights and the peaceful resolution of disputes.
The UNCHR pays particular attention to the needs of children and seeks to promote the equal rights of women and girls.

23. UNCHR

24. Amnesty International
Purpose: to defend human rights. They believe that human rights abuses anywhere are the concern of people everywhere
Amnesty International is:
independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion
financially autonomous, due to donations from individual members and supporters

25. Amnesty International Goals
defend freedom of expression
protect women’s rights
abolish the death penalty
demand justice for crimes against humanity
demand corporate accountability where companies have abused people’s rights

26. OXFAM
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in 92 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty
Focus on Advocacy, Emergency Work, Campaigning and Policy Development

27. OXFAM