A participação informal de ONGs na Organização das Nações Unidas: o Engajamundo e a CSW60

Abstract

In the last decades, the globalization process has led to a greater participation of non-state actors in the international political scene. Increasingly, civil society concerns on government decisions across domestic boundaries, leading demands on a wide range of issues: climate change, sustainable development, women, and so on. In this sense, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in particular have acquired an important role, being widely recognized by intergovernmental entities such as the United Nations. To this end, these organizations use formal and informal mechanisms. The present work aims at identifying which are these tools, giving special emphasis in the informal means. This will be demonstrated from the analysis of the experience of the Brazilian organization Engajamundo during the 60th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60).