Reviewed by Margaret James Fact checked by Michael Logan What Is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)? A non-governmental ...

UNHCR has been working with NGOs since we first began helping the forcibly displaced in the early 1950s. As our work and size grew to cope with emerging refugee crises in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, ...

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit entity that functions independently of government. However, many NGOs receive government funding.

Witnessing the war in Vietnam, many non-governmental and humanitarian groups ... Union and the United States rejected his offers. Other organizations were more successful in becoming involved.

The Irish Refugee Council is a national non-governmental organisation which ... Established in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the leading inter-governmental organization ...