A: A non-governmental organization is a group that, as the name implies, operates independently of governmental control. The ...

Battle of Mosul would have been unrecognizable to Henri Dunant, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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, ...