Without having read the report discussed by Valentina below, her post raises (apart from bringing to mind David Kennedy’s excellent paper The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? to mind) an interesting and in international law debates often overlooked issue of legitimacy of non-state actors. In this case that of non governmental organisations (NGOs). There can be no doubt that the influence and sheer numbers of NGOs in general have increased dramatically in international law and diplomacy over the last 15-20 years. While this is for the most part a good thing, it can be argued that this…