Origin

The NGO concept born in 1840, when he met the World Anti-Slavery Convention, provoking international mobilization to eliminate the slave trade.

In 1945, NGOs are formally recognized in Article 71 of the UN Charter.

The first NGO was the International Red Cross, which was created in 1863, after the many victims who left the Battle of Solferino between France and Austria. Also emerged NGOs such as Save the Children's Fund (1919), for orphans, and Oxford Famine Relief Committee, to fight hunger after World War II. At that time there were 200 registered NGOs and by 1990 there were more than 2000. Until today their number is growing and so too its importance.