He served for many years as a commissioner representing Massachusetts to the New England Confederation, an organization that coordinated matters of common interest (principally defense) among most of the New England colonies.
Bernard Wientjes, the president of the Dutch employers' organization Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), also accused Wilders of "seriously" damaging Dutch interests abroad.
In 1649 Dudley was appointed once again to serve as a commissioner and president of the New England Confederation, an umbrella organization established by most of the New England colonies to address issues of common interest; however, he was ill (and aging, at 73), and consequently unable to discharge his duties in that office.
But the N.H.S. Confederation, which represents organizations in the health service, says this will lead to the closing of some hospitals and a move toward a more disjointed system in which private companies pick up the slack.
Oxfam, the 67-year-old Oxford-based confederation of multinational organizations, spends more than $600 million a year around the world fighting poverty and famine, providing emergency relief, combating climate change and discrimination.
With Spain hampered by a 21 percent jobless rate — twice the European average — the government chose to make the ruling by decree after four months of negotiations between the biggest labor unions and the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, known as C.E.O.E., broke down last week.
But Oxfam International, a global confederation of aid organizations, said in a statement that the conference had failed to come up with a clear plan or any new impetus to reach the 2010 goal of universal access to H.I.V. prevention, treatment and care.
A national confederation of farmer organizations.
Dirty Heads has been working with Oxfam, a global confederation of 17 organizations "working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger and injustice".
The "confederation" approach combines organizations that work in parallel with no integration.
