1	The NGO Phenomenon: A Guide to Web Resources Anthony M. Angiletta Morrison Curator for the Social Sciences Updated 16 March 2006
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3	Extant Human Rights INGOs by Founding Date
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6	NGOs: Definition and Classification World Bank categorization Wikipedia definition and treatment Non-governmental Organizations Research Guide (Duke University site)
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8	International Context Term "non-governmental organization (NGO)" first used at founding of United Nations in 1945 Historical precedents: medieval charities and alms-giving, sectarian & secular welfare associations 1775 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery > abolition of slave trade,1841 • 1828 American Peace Society > 425 peace societies in 1900 and Hague Conferences
9	International Context (cont.) International Comm. of Red Cross Transnational groups: --International Federation of Tobacco Workers, 1876 > International Federation of Trade Unions, 1901 --Second or Socialist International, 1889 --Women’s suffrage movement, 1861 – 19^th Amendment anecdote on International Rotarians and Kiwanis • Explanatory Theories: functionalism --David Mitrany, A Working Peace System, 1943 --Ernst Haas, Beyond the Nation-State, 1964 • Anecdote: International Rotary & Kiwanis Int’l
10	Globalization, Human Rights & Sustainable Development India: >1,000,000 grass-roots organizations Russia: . 65,000 since 1991 WWF/WFN: 5,000,000 members Amnesty Int’l & FOE: each >1,000,000 members Greenpeace: 2,500,000 members International civil society and governance
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12	Stanford-only resources (cont’d) Selected citation indexes --Illumina (PAIS International, Sociological Abstracts, World Political Science Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt) EBSCO (Academic Source Premier, EconLit, Environmental Issues & Policy Index, Agricola) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) African Studies Database Women’s Resources International or Contemporary Women's Issues
13	Stanford-only Resources (cont.) • Official Publications and Documents indexes --international: AccessUN , AccessUNDP --United States: Congressional Universe, Statistical Universe
14	Beyond Stanford-only sources: WWW UN DPI --http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/index.asp --UN DESA/NGO Section Home Page UN Directory of NGOs Human Rights and Humanitarian links --http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/ngolinks.html --http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm --UN ReliefWeb --http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
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17	Beyond Stanford-only sources: WWW Global Policy Forum NGO sites --http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/research.htm --http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/index.htm --http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/resource/bibliog.htm Conference of NGOs (CONGO) --http://www.conferenceofngos.org/index1.html UN NGO Liaison system --http://www.unsystem.org/ngls/english/Default.html
18	Beyond Stanford-only sources: Examples of WWW Country-specific sites • Palestine --Palestinian NGO Network East Timor --FONGTIL - THE EAST TIMOR NGO FORUM South Africa --SANGONeT Guyana --NGO Forum of Guyana