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Watch, the World Wildlife Fund, or Greenpeace now form viable groups composedof a young, educated, and capable elite. 9NGOs have grown increasingly powerfuland influential at international conferences sponsored by the United Nations. Forinstance, NGO activity was particularly prominent at the 2001 UN World ConferenceAgainst Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa. This conference, however, was alsoan example of excessive NGO participation and harmful influence. At Durban, theNGO Forum was marked by episodes of intolerance and anti-Semitism. The Forumproduced unbalanced and impractical final documents that legitimized conferencedelegates pursuing anti-Western agendas. 10In many articles, it is widely argued that NGOs are emerging as one the majorforce, especially in global decision making. It is no wonder that NGOs have emergedas ever more powerful forces. Peter Sutherland, formerly head of the GATT (GeneralAgreement on Tariffs and Trade) and now chair of Goldman Sachs International,has stated that the only organizations now capable of global thought and action -the ones who will conduct the most important dialogues of the twenty-first century- are the multinational corporations and NGOs. When the heat is turned up on socialresponsibility issues, the international media now stoke the flames originally lit byNGOs. To most of the corporate world, journalists and NGOs share a predilection forscandal and bad news over coverage of positive developments or accomplishments.Good news about corporations is generally confined to the business segment of newsbroadcasts or the business section of the newspaper, whereas stories about scandalsand exploitation make the front page. Credibility is a key factor in editorial decisionsabout the significance of corporate news. Many NGOs, at the moment, have morecredibility with the public than do corporations or governments, so their critical8969?“NGOs,Sinsofthesecularmissionaries,”TheEconomist,January29,2000,p.2510 ?Jeffrey Andrew Hartwick,“Non-governmental Organizations at United Nations-sponsored World Conferences: AFramework for Participation Reform”, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 26,No. 2 (2003), pp.217-280.