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New: UNA-UK briefing paper on proposals for a 'League of Democracies' by Mipe Okunseinde (July 2008)
 

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The World Bank at Sixty-Three: Searching for a strategy in today's economic order
by Thorsten Benner at the Global Public Policy Institute

An article by GPPi's Associate Director outlining the perspectives for World Bank

reform in the fall 2007 edition of Internationale Politik- Global Edition.

With a new man at its helm, the crisis currently engulfing the organisation, he argues, reaches far deeper than the controversy over failed chief, Paul Wolfowitz

Security Council reform: the dual risks
by Sam Daws*


This paper was delivered at the International Conference on United Nations Reform in Tehran 17-18 July 2005.

*Sam Daws is the Executive Director of UNA-UK. He wasformerly First Officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.


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Mark Malloch Brown
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UN Management Reform
by HE Lindiew Mabuza*

In this article, which originally appeared in the July-September 2006 issue of UNA-UK's New World, HE Lindiwe Mabuza explains the views of the Group of 77 and China, which South Africa is currentlychairing, on management reform at the United Nations.

* HE Lindiwe Mabuza is High Commissioner of South Africa to London

.The US and the UN: an unhappy marriage?
by Mark Malloch Brown*

This is the text of a speech delivered by Mark Malloch Brown at the Century Foundation and Centre for American Progress in New York on 6 June 2006.

Also contained in these pages, which originally appeared in the July-September 2006 issue of

UNA-UK's New World, is a letter from Lord Hannay, Chair of UNA-UK, on the reaction of John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, to Mr Malloch Brown's speech

* Mark Malloch Brown is the UN Deputy Secretary-General

UN REFORM CHRONOLGY OF RECENT KEY UN REPORTS

2006
Investing in the United Nations for a stronger organisation worldwide
Secretary-General's report on management reform

2005
In Larger Freedom
Report of the Secretary-General for Decision by Heads of State and Government in September 2005.

2004
A More Secure World: our shared responsibility
Report of the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

2002
An agenda for further change
Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening the UN system

1997
An programme for reform
Report of the Secretary-General on renewing the United Nations

 

UN REFORM HOMEPAGE

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in larger freedom in the UK
AN AGENDA FOR ACTION FOLLOWING THE 2005 WORLD SUMMIT

UNA-UK has compiled a report of the feedback received from the joint Foreign and Commonwealth Office/UNA-UK public and expert engagement process. Please click on the cover below to read the complete version of the report, which includes a foreword by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.


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