By Pierre-Marie Dupuy & Luisa Vierucci

‘The increasing importance of NGOs has forced international institutions to pay attention to issues of participation and transparency. This excellent book provides comprehensive and insightful analyses of how international bodies accommodate NGOs and their concerns. It forthrightly addresses the uncertain legal status of NGOs in international law.’ – Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University Law Center, US

The increasing role that NGOs play at different levels of legal relevance – from treaty-making to rule implementation, from support to the judges to aid delivery – calls for reconsideration of the international legal status of those organizations. This book shows that the degree of flexibility currently enjoyed by NGOs in fields as varied as human rights, the environment and the European Union development cooperation policy constitutes the best arena for all actors involved, with the consequences that the instances where more strict regulation of NGOs’ participation is desirable are very limited.

Published Year: 2008 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978 1 84720 560 5 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing No of Pages: 288 Our Price: £ 67.50 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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