tions, and make recommendations to the Council. It shall be known as the "Committee on Arrangements for Consultation with Non-Governmental Organizations" (short title: Council NGO Committee)." 2. The Council NGO Committee may direct the Secretariat to screen applications on the basis of the criteria adopted by the Council for this purpose. 3. The list of applications so screened shall be circulated to the members of the United Nations by the Secretariat before it is considered by the Council Committee. III. Principles Governing the Nature of the Consultative Arrange ments 1. It is important to note that a clear distinction is drawn in the Charter between participation without vote in the deliberations of the Council, and the arrangements for consultation. Under Articles 69 and 70 participation is provided for only in the case of states not members of the Council, and of specialized inter-governmental agencies. Article 71 applying to non-governmental organizations provided for suitable arrangements for consultation. It is considered that this distinction, deliberately made in the Charter, is fundamental and that the arrangements for consultation should not be such as to accord to non-governmental organizations the same rights of participation accorded to states not members of the Council and to the specialized agencies brought into relationship with the United Nations. 2. It should also be recognized as a basic principle that the arrangements should not be such as to overburden the Council or transform it into a general forum for discussion instead of a body for coordination of policy and action, as is contemplated in the Charter. 3. Decisions on arrangements for consultation should be guided by the principle that consultative arrangements are to be made, on the one hand for the purpose of enabling the Council or one of its bodies to secure expert information or advice from organizations having special competence on the subjects for which consultative arrangements are made, and, The Report of the Committee on Arrangements for Consultation with Non-Governmental Organizations (E/43/Rev. 1) approved by the Council at its fourteenth meeting, 21 June 1946, provided that the Committee consist of the President and four members of the Council. At its fifteenth meeting, 21 June 1946. the Council decided that the Committee should be composed of the President and five members of the Council. The five members elected were: China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, and the United States. on the other hand, to enable organizations which represent important elements of public opinion, to express their views. Therefore, the arrangements for consultation made with each organization should involve only the subjects for which that organization has a special competence or in which it has a special interest. In general these arrangements should be made for a definite period, reviewable at the end thereof. 4. Consultative arrangements should not be made with an international organization which is a member of a committee or group composed of international organizations with which consultative arrangements have been made except for different subjects than those for which consultation arrangements have been made with the committee or group. 5. In several of the fields covered by the Council there will exist specialized inter-governmental agencies brought into relationship with the Council, and participating in its deliberations as provided in Article 70. There may be close connection and cooperation between these agencies and the non-governmental organizations whose specific field of interest is the same as or similar to that of the specialized agency. The Council should take this consideration into account. APPENDIX B. Woman Personnel in League of Nations and United Nations and Participants in Activities Related to Status of Women I. WOMEN OFFICIALS IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1. Women Sent by Their Countries to League of Nations Assembly as Delegates, Substitute Delegates, Experts, 1920–39, 1946 In most instances women were substitute delegates, of whom each country could have as many as two in addition to its full voting delegate. In only a few instances were women full delegates, notably for four years from Sweden and three years each from Canada and Hungary. Substitute delegates could address the Assembly, and they played an important part in the League's operation, since they could serve on any of the Assembly's six committees, on each of which every country could have representation. The following list includes names of all women who were full delegates and all others who were sent in more than one year, including those appointed as experts or technical advisers. Unless otherwise stated, service listed below is as substitute delegate. Countries are listed in order of length of representation of women. Denmark-Women in delegation 19 years, as follows: Froken Henni Forchammer 1 (1920-37, as expert 1920-22, 1924) Norway-Women in delegation 19 years, as follows: Dr. Kristine Elisabeth Bonnevie (1920-24). Fru Martha Larsen Jahn (1925-27) Fru Ingebord Aas (1928-34) Froken Johanne Reutz (1935-38) Sweden-Women in delegation 18 years, as follows: Fru Anna Bugge-Wicksell3 (1920-27) 1 Miss Forchammer was one of nine women who came to America in 1902 to attend the first international conference of women, which was called by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This conference made plans for the organization in 1904 of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Miss Forchammer served 9 years (1928-34, 1936, 1937) on the Assembly's Sixth Committee (Political Questions, which included dealing with minorities). She was the first woman ever to address the League Assembly, speaking on the subject of traffic in women and children. 2 Mrs. Begtrup was sent as an adviser with her country's delegation to the First Assembly of the United Nations, which met in London January 1946, and later was appointed from her country as a member of the Subcommission on Status of Women, which elected her its chairman, (see pp. 109, 27); still later she was made a member of the full Commission on Status of Women. * Mrs. Wicksell, a fully qualified lawyer, was a member of the League's Permanent Mandates Commission, organized in 1920. A proposal of hers was adopted, influencing international outlook: that each member be responsible for a given area of information throughout all mandated territories. She served for 7 early years (1921-27) on the Assembly's First Committee (Legal and Constitutional Questions), in one year as a full member. Froken Kirsten Hesselgren (1928, 1930-38; as full delegate 1933-36, as expert 1928, 1930) (Also an additional woman member in 1938.) Rumania-Women in delegation 18 years, as follows: Mlle. Helene Vacaresco (1921-38) Mme. Alexandrine Cantacuzine (as expert, 1929, 1931) Years of service 10 18 2 Great Britain-Women in delegation 17 years (1922–38); one as full delegate, Susan Lawrence (1930); only women serving more than one session: Dame Edith Lyttelton (1923, 1926-28, 1931) Australia-Women in delegation 16 years (1922-30, 1932-38). Only 52232 2 2 2 woman serving more than one session: Miss A. F. Bage (1926, 1938) 2 Hungary-Women in delegation 12 years (1927-38). Only woman serving more than one session: 11 Countess Albert Apponyi (1928–38; as full delegate 1936-38) Netherlands-Women in delegation 12 years (1928-38, 1946). Only woman serving more than one session: Mervw. C. A. Kluyver' (1928-30, 1932–38; 1946, full delegate). Germany-Women in delegation 8 years (1926-33), always as experts. Only woman serving more than one session: Frau Lang-Brumann (as expert, 1927-30). Poland-Women in delegation 8 years (1931-38). Only women serving more than one session: Mme. Hanna Hubicka (1932-35) Mme. Wanda Woytowicz-Grabinska (1934 as expert; 1937-38)----France Woman in delegation 7 years, as follows: Mme. Malaterre-Sellier (as expert or technical adviser, 1932-38) Canada-Women in delegation 6 years (1929-32, 1935, 1938). No woman served more than one session. Three were full delegates, Mrs. Irene Parlby (1930), Mrs. Henry P. Plumptre (1931), Mrs. Charles Fremont (1932). 11 4 3 7 4 Miss Hesselgren was ex officio vice-president of the Assembly in 1933; as Rapporteur on the subject of status of women in 1937 for the First Committee of the Assembly (that on Legal and Constitutional Questions), she summarized and reported on information on this subject sent in by governments of some 38 countries, see p. 10. She was a member of the League Committee of Experts on Status of Women established in 1937, see p. 11. Miss Vacaresco served for 8 years (1925-32) on the Assembly's Second Committee (on Technical Organizations)—in 5 of these years as her country's full member. She was a member of the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters (Letters Section) of the League's Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. She served for 8 years (1928, 1931-37) on the League's Sixth Committee (Political Questions). Miss Horsbrugh was sent as an assistant delegate from her country to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945. (See p. 105.) Mrs. Kluyver was a member of the committee of jurists to draft statutes of the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1920; she served during 10 sessions on the Fourth Committee of the League Assembly (that on Budget and Financial Questions), on which it was unusual for women to be placed, and in 1936 she was its vice chairman. She was a full delegate to the League Assembly at its last session in 1946. Years of service Lithuania-Woman in delegation 6 years, as follows: Mme. Sofija Ciurlionis (as full delegate 1929, 1931; 1935-38) Senorita Clara Camposnor (1931, 1934) Finland-Women in delegation 5 years (1927-30, 1937). Only woman serving more than one session: Mme. Tilma Hainari (1927-30) Czechoslovakia-Women in delegation 4 years, as follows: Mme. Frantiska Plaminkova (1931-32) Mlle. Helena Barnadova (as expert, 1935, 1937) Russia-Woman in delegation 4 years, as follows: Mme. Alexandra Kollontay (1935-38) Austria-Woman in delegation 3 years, as follows: Mme. Fanny Starhemberg (1934-36) China-Women in delegation 3 years (1934-35, 1937). Only woman serving more than one session: Mme. Hilda Yen Chen (as expert, 1935, 1937) Mexico Woman in delegation 3 years, as follows: Chile-Woman in delegation 2 years, as follows: Senorita Palma Guillen (1937 as full delegate; 1938-39). Senora Marta Vergara (1931 as expert; 1932) Iran-Women in delegation 2 years (1933, 1936). Mlle. Suzanne Ferriere (as expert, 1937-38) 2 3 2 2 Countries having a woman member of their delegation in one year only: Siam-1922 Bulgaria-1930 Colombia-1932 Portugal-1936 Turkey (Full delegate, Mme. Nayman)-1938 New Zealand-1939 Total countries having women members of their delegations at some time-29. Total countries with any woman full delegate -8. 2. Women Members of League of Nations Commissions, 1920--371 Permanent Mandates Commission (1920) Members: Fru Anna Bugge-Wicksell (Swedish) Froken Valentine Dannevig (Norwegian) 1 Source: As listed in Year-Books and other publications through 1937 (in a few instances, later). For positions where the delegate represented the Government, the country has been designated; otherwise the nationality of the individual. Wherever an individual's full name was available in any of the sources used, the full name has been used throughout. |