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Institutional Presentation of the CNU – Confederal representative authority

The Confederation of Humanitarian Nations (CNU) is an international confederal structure of a non-state nature, established to operate as a confederal representative authority in the fields of human rights, humanitarian cooperation, and social development.

The CNU operates as an international platform for coordination and representation, bringing together within an organized network humanitarian entities, civil society organizations, academic institutions, non-state international organizations and, in accordance with the provisions of its Statute, also States and public entities, in full respect of fundamental human rights and the applicable norms of international law.

Its confederal configuration with open participation derives from the combination of three essential elements:

Confederal composition, based on the membership of non-state entities and organizations operating in the humanitarian, social, and human rights fields, as well as on the voluntary participation of States and public entities, as member entities or observers, without such participation implying intergovernmental nature, the exercise of sovereign powers, or the attribution of public functions to the Confederation.

Institutional dialogue capacity, exercised through relations, cooperation, and structured dialogue with States, parliaments, governmental bodies, multilateral organizations, and diplomatic networks, within the framework of non-state international cooperation and without assuming prerogatives proper to intergovernmental organizations.

Confederal operational mandate, conferred by the adhering entities, enabling the CNU to coordinate, support, and facilitate humanitarian interventions, human rights monitoring and protection activities, international cooperation initiatives, and social development programs through a global network of confederated entities, while fully respecting the legal and operational autonomy of each member.