NGO sector is now the eighth largest economy in the world valued at over $1 trillion a year globally
NGOs, non-governmental organizations, became an indirect part of governments through art. 71 of the Charter of the United Nations, Chapter X, The Economic and Social Council (1945). This council was tasked to make “suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence.” The organizations could be international and national as long as the U.N. member concerned was consulted.
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:
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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