LIST OF 42 INVITED CONSULTING ORGANIZATIONS:

1. American Association for the United Nations (AAUU) https://unausa.org 
2. American Association of University Women (AAUW) https://www.aauw.org 
3. American Bar Association (ABA) https://www.americanbar.org 
4. American Council on Education (ACE) https://www.acenet.edu 
5. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) https://www.fb.org  
6. American Federation of Labor (AFL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Labor 
7. American Jewish Committee (AJC)  https://www.ajc.org/. 
8. American Jewish Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jewish_Conference 
9. American Legion https://www.legion.org  
10. American Section of the International Chamber of Commerce https://iccwbo.org 
11. American Veterans Committee https://www.americanveteranscenter.org/ 
12. Americans United for World Organization (AUWO) https://www.au.org 
13. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Carnegie Foundation) https://carnegieendowment.org 
14. Catholic Association for International Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Association_for_International_Peace 
15. Chamber of Commerce of the United States https://www.uschamber.com  
16. Church Peace Union (CPU) http://www.carnegiecouncil.org 
17. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations 
18. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) https://www.cfr.org 
19. Disable of American Veterans of the World War  http://www.dav.org 
20. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_of_Churches 
21. Foreign Policy Association (FPA) https://www.fpa.org 
22. General Federation of Women’s Clubs https://www.gfwc.org 
23. Kiwanis International (KI) https://www.kiwanis.org 
24. Lions International (LCI)  https://lionsclubs.org 
25. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) https://www.naacp.org 
26. National Association of Manufacturer (NAM) https://www.nam.org 
27. National Catholic Welfare Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Catholic_Welfare_Council 
28. National Congress of Parents and Teachers (NCPT) https://www.pta.org 
29. National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) http://ncfc.org 
30. National Exchange Club https://www.nationalexchangeclub.org 
31. National Farmers Union https://nfu.org 
32. National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs https://www.nfbpwc.org 
33. National Foreign Trade Council http://www.nftc.org 
34. National Grange https://www.nationalgrange.org 
35. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) https://www.nlg.org 
36. National League of Women Voters (LWV) https://www.lwv.org 
37. National Peace Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Peace_Council 
38. National Education Association (NEA) https://www.nea.org 
39. Railway Labor Executives Association (RLEA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Executives%27_Association 
40. Rotary International https://www.rotary.org/en 
41. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States http://vfw.org 
42. Women’s Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2813 

OBSERVER ORGANIZATIONS 

Active but not officially invited: 

1. American Library Association (ALA) http://www.ala.org 
2. American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Women%27s_Voluntary_Services 
3. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Railroad_Trainmen 
4. Commission to Study the Organization of Peace  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_to_Study_the_Organization_of_Peace 
5. Free World Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World_(magazine) 
6. National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) https://www.ncjw.org 
7. Pan Pacific Women’s Association https://www.ppseawa.org 
8. Smithsonian Institute (SI) https://www.si.edu 
9. Southern Baptist convention (SBC) http://www.sbc.net 
10. Save the Redwoods League, who proposed and organized the visit to Muir Woods https://www.savetheredwoods.org  
11. Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) https://www.ymca.net

Those who favored global governance 

1. World Federalists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federalist_Movement 
2. World Government Association
3. Federal Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Union 

Those who attended but opposed international organizations

1. Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution 

List of Consultants Representatives

Consultants and associates of the United States Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, 1945, San Francisco, Calif. Listing the names, offices, and local addresses of the individuals formally representing various American groups and associations participating in the United Nations Conference (among them, Walter White, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Mary McLeod Bethune for the NAACP). See original document at http://credo.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/pdf.cgi?id=scua:mums312-b108-i391

Prominent Leaders

Read the full list of assigned consultants and associates for the 42 civil society organizations at UNCIO. Consultant List Information UNCIO

Mr. Clark Mell Eichelberger, was consultant at UNCIO representing the American Association for the United Nations (AAUN). He was a 20th-century American peace activist who previously served as a consultant to the League of Nations Secretariat and became (1938) national director of the League of Nations Association (LNA). In 1945, the association’s name changed to the American Association of the United Nations (AAUN), and Eichelberger served as its executive director until 1964, when he became vice president of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNAUSA) through 1968.

Dr. James Shotwell, was consultant at UNCIO representing the Carnegie Foundation. He was a Canadian-born American history professor who played an instrumental role in the creation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1919. He promoted the inclusion of a declaration of human rights in the UN Charter. In May 1944, he and a group of colleagues published a “Design for the Charter of the General International Organization” to succeed the ruined League of Nations that influenced later drafting at Dumbarton Oaks.

Mr. Walter Francis White was consultant an UNCIO representing National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was a prominent American civil rights activist who led NAACP for almost 26 years after joining the organization as an investigator on lynching practices. He conducted numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes.

Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois was was a member with Ms. Walter White of the three-person delegation from the NAACP to UNCIO in 1945. Du Bois is a well-known American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, prolific author and one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. His NAACP delegation wanted the United Nations to endorse racial equality and to bring an end to the colonial era. He drafted a proposal that pronounced “[t]he colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars”.Yet, the proposal received support only from China, Russia and India, and was virtually ignored by the other major powers. Although the NAACP proposals were not included in the United Nations charter, after UNCIO Du Bois published Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace, a book that attacked colonial empires. Influencing the drafting the UDHR in 1948, Du. Bois submitted petitions to the UN concerning discrimination against African Americans such as “An Appeal to the World: A Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of Citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress” (1947) that laid the foundation for the later report and petition called “We Charge Genocide” (1951). , submitted in 1951 by the Civil Rights Congress.[245] “We Charge Genocide” accuses the U.S. of systematically sanctioning murders and inflicting harm against African Americans and therefore committing genocide.

Consultants & Observers

Images of Civil Society Consultants and Observers who participated with the Delegates at UNCIO

See more images of UNCIO consultants and UNCIO related events:

UN PHOTO COLLECTION: https://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/gallery.jsp?query=san+francisco+1945

UN FLICKR ALBUM: Founding of the UN – San Francisco Conference. https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/albums/72157616945763028

Resources to know more

• American Catholics and the Formation of the United Nations, By Joseph Samuel Rossi
• Korey, W., & Palgrave Connect (Online service). (2001). NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A curious grapevine. New York: Palgrave. Preview of chapters here>>
• Robins, D. B. (1971). Experiment in democracy: The story of U.S. citizen organization in forging the charter of the United Nations. New York: Parkside Press.
• Schlesinger, S. C. (2005). Act of creation: The founding of the United Nations : a story of superpowers, secret agents, wartime allies and enemies, and their quest for a peaceful world. Boulder, Colo: Westview.
• Woodward, B. K. (2010). Global civil society in international lawmaking and global governance: Theory and practice. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
• Wurst, J. (2016). The UN Association of the USA: A little-known history of advocacy and action.. Boulder, Colorado Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Excerpt here >> 

NGO Consultative Status Today

Non-governmental, non-profit public or voluntary organizations may be admitted into a mutually beneficial working relationship with the United Nations by attaining consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This status is based on Article 71 of the Charter of the United Nations and on ECOSOC Resolution 1996/31 adopted in 1996. The rights and privileges enumerated in detail in ECOSOC resolution 1996/31, enable qualifying organizations to make a contribution to the work programmes and goals of the United Nations by serving as technical experts, advisers and consultants to governments and Secretariat. Sometimes, as advocacy groups, they espouse UN themes, implementing plans of action, programmes and declarations adopted by the United Nations. In concrete terms this entails their participation in ECOSOC and its various subsidiary bodies through attendance at these meetings, and also through oral interventions and written statements on agenda items of those bodies. In addition, organizations, qualifying for General Category consultative status, may propose new items for consideration by the ECOSOC. Organizations granted status are also invited to attend international conferences called by the U.N., General Assembly special sessions, and other intergovernmental bodies.

Currently there are 3187 NGOs in consultative status with the ECOSOC and some 400 NGOs accredited to the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), a subsidiary body of ECOSOC. Read more here>>

Civil society organizations can also establish a relation with the United Nations Department of Global Communication (UN-DGC, formerly UNDPI) that organizes annual conferences on NGOs and related themes of concern at the United Nations. Youth involvement is key to the success of the UN Civil Society Conferences. The UN Department of Global Communications Civil Society Youth Representatives Steering Committee advises the Department on strategies to engage young people serving non-governmental organizations and youth-led organizations affiliated with DGC on advocacy and outreach activities, with particular focus on the planning process for UN Civil Society Conferences. Read more here>>

Access and search the current list of NPOs/NGOs with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC: Advanced search for Civil Society Organizations>>