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ECOSOC and the Suspension Case of
Christian Solidarity International (CSI)
NGO Committee Discusses its Relations With the Commission on Human Rights (June 22, 2000)
Following on from varying “incidents”, the ECOSOC NGO Committee asked the Secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights to exercise a stricter monitoring of NGOs. (UN Press Release)ECOSOC Vote on Status of Christian Solidarity International (October 26, 1999)
Table showing ECOSOC members' votes with a majority in favor of removing CSI's ECOSOC consultative status.Final Decision to Withdraw CSI's ECOSOC status (October 26, 1999)
Summary of the ECOSOC meeting by Jennifer Schense, Legal Adviser for NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court.NGO Loses Consultive Status with Economic and Social Council (October 26, 1999)
UN Press Release about revocation of CSI's accreditation based on the Sudanese government's charge that the NGO allowed Sudanese rebel leader, John Garang, to represent it before the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva in March 1999. (UN Press Release Correction)Group That Buys Freedom for Slaves in Sudan Loses UN Rights (October 26, 1999)
ABC News Internet Ventures/ Associated Press article about the controversy surrounding Christian Solidarity International (CSI) and the recent decision to remove its ECOSOC consultative status.Committee on NGOs Decision on CSI (September 9, 1999)
The ECOSOC Committee on NGOs voted by majority to ask ECOSOC to take action on the Committee's previous recommendation to withdraw consultative status from CSI. (CONGO List-serv)Background on ECOSOC and the CSI Case (July 1999)
Information distributed through the CONGO list-serv.ECOSOC Press Release on Consultative Status of CSI (July 30, 1999)
In compromise, consultative status of NGO is suspended pending review by CONGO.Statement by CONGO to ECOSOC on Case of CSI
Statement by CONGO Vice President Danielle Bridel calls for due process for CSIHuman Rights Groups' Letter to Ambassador Fulci of Italy (July 27, 1999)
NGOs protest removal of CSI's consultative status in a letter to President of ECOSOC.Review of the Christian Solidarity International in the Economic and Social Council
Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations in the Economic and Social Council in its 1999 session, June 1-18, 1999.DESA Report on CONGO 1999 Substantive Session, held June 1-18
Issues on the CONGO agenda included decison to deny ECOSOC status to Human Rights in China along with results of vote taken on motion to withdraw CSI's consultative status.Sudan Denounces Rights Group for Link with Garang (March 25, 1999)
Reuters article about the Sudanese government's condemnation of the Swiss-based human rights group CSI for hosting rebel leader John Garang at the annual session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
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