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War Veterans Committee

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Disabled Persons Education Humanitarian Affairs Labour Social Development Sustainable Development
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Belarus Kyrgyzstan Republic of Moldova Uzbekistan Ukraine Russian Federation Azerbaijan Armenia Tajikistan
Millennium Development Goals:	Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	An NGO - War Veterans Committee (WVC) is registered with the Federal Registration Service of the Russian Federation, and since July 2004 under Resolution 1996/31 and the decision of governing bodies has been in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, which is an official recognition of the legitimacy of its relations with this international organization. The Committee comprises numerous international and regional veterans’ organizations from post-Soviet countries where main socio-economic indicators of veterans’ standard of life, including pensions, per capita family income, consumer expenditure pattern, medical, household, rehabilitation treatment, and cultural services remain relatively low. In this category of the population, we see the biggest number of displaced persons and refugees, unemployed, employed in other states, those with incomes below the poverty line. The Committee helps and upholds the rights of those who took part in hostilities, fulfilling their military duty, and those who suffered from hostilities, local conflicts and acts of terror as well as their families. At a conservative estimate, there are about 3 million such people in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.
Year established:	1992
Year of registration:	2004
Organizational structure:	Within 2004-2007 period the Committee actively carried out: • interconnection and work with public organizations, governments of the states, bodies and establishments of public health services and social security system of the Azerbaijan Republic, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kirghiz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia on rendering medico-social help to veterans of wars and local conflicts; • working out and realization of programs and the international projects of a medico-social orientation ( presented to the governments of aforementioned states, co-coordinated with 7 states, transferred to 67 public organizations, 146 establishments and presented to ECOSOC, WHO and UNDP); • direct work with participants of war, their members of families, invalids, victims of terrorism with a view of meeting their requirements for medical consultations, hospitalization, rendering therapeutic help, prosthetics, rehabilitation, procurement with invalid carriages and wheelchairs, rehabilitation means, etc; • organizational-methodical and scientific work, participation in the edition process of magazines « Problems of Rehabilitation » and «Hospital medicine»; • international cooperation with veteran organizations, medical and social security centers of the USA, Germany, Israel and Great Britain.
Number and type of members:	By the end of 2011 WVC comprised of 17 veteran organizations from 15 countries plus 28 regional organizations from Russian Federation.
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Donations and grants from domestic sources

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