The EmeraldPlanet is now collaborating with the
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, CoNGO. CoNGO was founded in 1948, and has since then relentlessly worked to ensure that NGO voices be heard throughout the international arena. CoNGO's role in mobilizing NGOs to form the first worldwide NGO forum on human rights in 1968, its role in conceiving forms of NGO participation in UN world conferences and its advocacy on behalf of NGOs at UN Headquarters highlight CoNGO's chief objectives: to ensure that NGOs be present when governments discuss issues of global concern at the United Nations and to facilitate NGO discussions on such issues. Members represent a large range of vital interests, in areas such as human rights, gender, peace and disarmament, social justice, governance, environment and sustainable development. CoNGO and its members collaborate with the larger community of NGOs through standing NGO committees, which follow issues that are of key substantive interest relative to their mandates and objectives.