NGOs are non-governmental organizations. Over the years, NGOs
have developed to address humanitarian issues, developmental aid, and
sustainable development.
They are largely funded by private and/or government
donations. From its inception, the UN recognized that NGOs would be integral to
furthering its mission.
Explain that the United Nations recognizes the important role
NGOs play in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2001, a
group of 30 representative NGOs were invited to form a regular group
called the NGO Working Group on Security Council. According to Global Policy
Forum, they have become an influential forum at the United Nations. When it was
founded in 1995, no one imagined that an NGO body could have an influential
voice on Council-related issues. Powerful Permanent Members, it was
assumed, would definitively block such an initiative. Just six years later, the
Working Group has won significant influence on UN peace and security policy.
Though completely informal and enjoying no official status, the Working Group
meets regularly with ambassadors of virtually all Council-member
delegations.
The Working Group evolved through several phases. At first it
aimed at influencing Council reform and it sought to gather a large number of
NGOs under its banner. Later, it organized a “dialogue” between Council members
and NGOs, operating with just thirty influential members.
This history considers the Working Group’s development, as it
gained increasingly-close access to the Council. The NGOs in the Working Group
brought a new set of values to the Council environment at a time when the
Council was an especially closed and secretive body. The NGOs lobbied for
accountability and openness and they spoke in favor of human rights and
humanitarian standards. At times, Council members listened and policies changed
for the better, a considerable achievement. The Council still remains an
institution of unaccountable Great Power interests and realpolitik, but the
Working Group continues to advocate different standards of action, in the
interests of a wider humanity.
What is NATO? NAFTA? APEC? WHO? Find out this week in Social Studies as we hunt for answers on the internet.
What country does Canada trade with that you're interested in researching?
Create a brochure that informs the reader about the Social, Political, Economic and Physical characteristics of your country.
We will be starting a new social studies unit after Health.
The new unit will be Canada and it's trading partners.
Project deadline is end of the period on Friday.
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Time to research! Which topic will you choose?
1. (Chinese Canadians) How did the Head Tax Policy affect the Chinese immigrants in Canada and their families?
2. (Louis Riel) Why did some people think Louis Riel was a hero while others thought he was a traitor? (Red River Resistance)
3. (Black Loyalists) How did the white residents of Canada respond to the arrival of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia (establishment of Birchtown?)? OR How did the Black Loyalists respond to their experience upon settling in Nova Scotia in the late 1700s?
4. (Residential schools) What impact did the residential school experience have on First Nations’ families and communities?
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Time to create your Canadian Kahoot game.
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How would you represent Canada? What images would you choose? Why?
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Time to interview an immigrant... Who will you ask your questions of?
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What is immigration? Why to people immigrate?
Watch the video for a few ideas
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What is you province/territory's history? People? Tourism & Recreation? Arts & Culture?
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What does it mean to be Canadian? What are our beliefs? Symbols? What is our culture? Geography?
Watch this video for an introduction to life "In Canada"
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