6 Indian NGOs accorded special consultative status with UN

January 27, 2013 10:02

Six Indian non-governmental organisations working for the uplift of women, Dalits and poor have been approved for consultative status with the United Nations.

The approval by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which is a part of the UN's Economic and Social Council, came during the annual ongoing session of the world body panel this week.

NGOs enjoying general and special status can attend meetings of the Council and issue statements.

Prominent among them include Action of Human Movement, which seeks to help improve living conditions for poor people in rural Tamil Nadu state, and Centre for Community Economics & Development Consultants Society which seeks to empower partner communities, castes and tribes, small and marginal farmers, landless people and Dalits as well as deprived women and children.

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