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Afghanistan is an arena in which the global political conflicts of the 21st century are all written large. Does this benefit the country? Building a new state in Afghanistan is the first democratic state-building project undertaken by Europeans outside of their own continent. Former colonial powers such as Germany, France, […]

Consider the three pie charts below, which show (1) the percentage of NGOs at the UN headquartered in OECD nations, G77 nations, or nations that are neither OECD nor G77 members against (2) the percentage of world population living in each group and (3) the percentage of world GDP (by […]

Nonkosi Khumalo, the chairperson of Treatment Action Campaign South Africa, asks whether African civil society has “lost the plot” in its efforts to encourage stronger international action on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Read more

This chart shows how many NGOs a region (UN Geoscheme) has in consultative status to the UN for every billion dollars of GDP (purchasing-power parity) it produces.

This simple chart shows the approximate trend in the overall “population” of global NGOs over the past few years.