Will be held in New York from September 24 – 25, 2013 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York. This conference is a platform for important dialogue that will bring together Heads of African nations, statesman, academia, business leaders, and international leaders. It's aim is to promote regional collaborations and to forge the path towards lasting economic and social partnerships on the global scale. (Read more...)

June 1, 2013 is the last day for NGOs to apply for Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) consultative status. Consultative status provides NGOs with access to not only ECOSOC, but also to its many subsidiary bodies, to the various human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, ad-hoc processes on small arms, as well as special events organized by the President of the General Assembly. (Read more...)

In April 2013, health groups at the UN-backed Global Vaccine Summit announced they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease. (Read more...)

Extreme poverty has been cut in half in the last 20 years, and the facts show that we can get it to virtually zero within a generation--but only if we act. (Read more...)

We are pleased to inform you that we have just added a new job-search feature to the WANGO website. In partnership with www.ngojobsonline.com, WANGO now displays the latest in NGO job vacancies and volunteer positions from around the globe. (Read more...)