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• | 2005 World Summit Outcome
  The Heads of State and the Government, reunited in New York from the 14th to the 16th of September 2005, solved to create a more pacific world, more prosperous and democratic and to undertake concrete measures to find ways to execute Millennium Summit and ...
• | 60th Annual DPI/NGO Final Declaration. Climate change threats- an NGO Framework for Action
  The 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference has taken place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 7 September 2007. More than 2,000 representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from over 80 countries have attended roundtables, panels and ...
• | A Fair Deal for the World
  Publsihed at : The New York Review of Books. VOl. 49, number 9, may 23,2002 The author of Globalization and Its Discontents makes a review of the book "On Globalization" by George Soros.
• | A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
  The Report of the World Commission is a positive but critical message for changing the current path of globalization. It says that the potentials of globalization, in terms of growing connectivity and productive capacity, are immense. However, current syst ...
• | A More Democratic UN... and a Stronger UN!
  The first Track of the Global Governance 2002 (G02) conference examinated issues related to the evolving role of the UN in global governance and policy options and strategies to strengthen collaboration beween the UN and civil society in democratizing glob ...
• | Access and Influence : Tensions and ambiguities in the World Bank's expanding relationship with civil society organizations
  This study is part of NSI's Project on Civil Society Voices and the Multilateral Organizations. It focuses on the tensions arising from the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and on the complex history of civil society relations. It was ...
• | Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization
  Agreement for which it is established the World Trade Organization. It contains articles dealing with WTO's scope, functions, structure and budget among other issues.
• | An Open Letter on Women & UN Reform to the Secretary General and Member States
  The pattern of publicly adopted commitments and statements followed by lack of implementation sets a disheartening precedent which retards the work and reputation of the United Nations and impedes the urgently-needed progress of gender equality worldwide. ...
• | Another Africa is possible: World Social Forum
  Tens of thousands of activists and advocates from around the globe gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the seventh World Social Forum (WSF) in January. The rallying cry, “Another world is possible,” served as a catalyst for debate and mobilization: what might t ...
• | Assessing the United Nations after the Lebanon war of 2006
  Richard Falk's article about the Lebanon war on the summer of 2006. He gives some recomendations to the UN in order to stabilize the situation in this conflictive Middle East country.
• | Barack Obama's historic victory
  Richard Falk's article analizing the challenges that Barack Obama will face during his term.
• | Beyond Meltzer
  In March 2000, the US Congressional Committee set up to examine reform of the multilateral isntitutions, led by Allan Meltzer, presented its recommendations. The report proposes extensive reforms to these institutions which would completely change their na ...
• | Cairo Declaration for Peace in Darfur
  Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) has organized, in Cairo, on 11th and 12th of May, 2007, a regional workshop on "Peace in Darfur", aiming at guaranteeing the respect of human rights in Darfur province, the protection of civilians as well as means ...
• | Case Against GEO, WEO, or whatever-else-EO
  The premise of this essay is that current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United Natio ...
• | Civil Society Consultation on the Work of the President of the UN General Assembly's Comission of Experts on Reforms Of the International Monetary and Financial System
  NGLS document that compiles in one report the civil society expertise and insights in order to inform the preparations of the President's Comission on Financial Reforms.
• | Civil Society Voices and the International Monetary Fund
  This is a report arising from NSI's Civil Society Voices and the Multilateral Organizations project. It examines the relations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with civil society organizations and reviews their initiatives toward the Fund.
• | Club of Athens Global Governance Group, The
  Is globalisation the best thing that has happened to humankind or a major threat to society? Why is the antiglobalisation movement growing both in density and intensity? Is the contemporary system of international governance up to the challenge of globalis ...
• | Commission on Global Governance
  It focuses on global governance. It concludes by urging the international community to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations by beginning a determined process of rethinking and reform.
• | Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against Women
  On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had rat ...
• | Currency Transaction Tax, The. A bold idea for financing development
  Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good.
• | Declaration from Social Movements / NGOs / CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Food Summit on Food Security
  We, 642 persons coming from 93 countries and representing 450 organisations of peasant and family farmers, small scale fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, youth, women, the urban people, agricultural workers, local and international NGOs, and ot ...
• | Declaration of the World Food Summit on Food Security
  Final Declaration of the World Food Summit on Food Security held in Rome in 2009.
• | Declaration with civil society demands on World Bank
  The demands contained in this document are based on African countries and civil societies experiencies of the effects of the impact of World Bank policies and programmes. These demands are largely borne from the workshops organised by SANGOCO, SACC and COS ...
• | Democracy's Edges
  Democracy has been a flawed hegemon since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics, are all positive features for political institutions. But democrac ...
• | Democratizing Global Governance
  Is globalization beyond human control? In this thought-provoking text, the myths and mantras of this apparently irresistible force are challenged and dissembled. By examining a number of fundamental questions, the contributors put forward a radical reform ...
• | Designing a New Architecture for Global Environmental Governance
  The process of globalisation in the last decade has pointed to the increasing interdependance of the economies of the world and citizens of all nations. It has led to a growing recognition that countries need to find ways to work toghether to tackle shared ...
• | Después de Porto Alegre
  Porto Alegre meeting and the movement against globalisation.
• | Draft Outcome Document of the Conference on the World Financial and Economical crisis and its impact on Development
  This Conference represents a milestone in an ongoing and concerted engagement by all States Members of the United Nations to address the crisis and its impact on development. Today, we have set forth our global consensus on the responses to this crisis, pr ...
• | Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
  The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, ended with a condemnation of those scourges and a call for action by the international community to eradicate them wherever they may be ...
• | Economía de guerra
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza article, published in El País. He analizes the international system and its economic framework.
• | En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente
  In times of crisis, global solutions are required in order to mitigate the effects that it has over the people.
• | Enhancing the efficiency of the Conference follow up process through the lens of strengthening the involvement of civil society
  Report enhancing the efficiency of the ECOSOC conference follow up process through the lens of strengthening the involvement of civil society, and on the follow up to the World Summit on the Information Society.
• | European Parliament's Resolution FTT 2010-03-25 (CAST)
  Resolución del Parlamento Europeo, de 25 de marzo de 2010, sobre los efectos de la crisis financiera y económica mundial en los países en desarrollo y en la cooperación al desarrollo.
• | European Parliament's Resolution FTT 2010-03-25 (Eng)
  European Parliament resolution of 25 March 2010 on the effects of the global financial and economic crisis on developing countries and on development cooperation
• | European Parliament's Resolution FTT 2010-03-25 (Fr)
  Résolution du Parlement européen du 25 mars 2010 sur les répercussions de la crise financière et économique mondiale sur les pays en développement et sur la coopération au développement.
• | From a Global Market Place to Political Spaces
  This book is an outcome of the second phase of the process "A North-South Dialogue on Democracy and Globalization". The First part explains the background for the selection of initiatives and evaluators ; the second part constitutes of the four evaluation ...
• | Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action
  This briefing note summarizes the steps leading up to the special session and immediate implications of its outcome for the work of the Commission on the Status on Women, one of the main functional commissions of ECOSOC and the main intergovernmental body ...
• | Future belongs to all, The
  The Conference on the topic “From Global Warning to Global Policy” was convened by the World Political Forum and the Club of Rome and chaired by President Mikhail Gorbachev in Turin on March 28-29 2008. It gathered representatives from parliaments and othe ...
• | G20 Global Plan for Recovery and Reform
  Final communiqué of the G20 London Summit.
• | Gaza: An Israeli Call for Urgent Action
  Document signed by several Israelian organizations asking to stop the Gaza Strip blockade.
• | Gender Equality Arquitecture and UN reforms
  This paper briefly outlines the successes and failures of the current UN system in adressing gender equality and women's rights, and puts forth several principles and characteristics that are critical to reforming the gender equality architecture in order ...
• | Global democratic governance and the reform of International Institutions
  Paper centered on the Reform of the International Institutions, UN, IFI's and WTO.
• | Global Governance and the Changing Face of International Law
  Adaptation, flexibility and change are not words that many seem to associate with international law. As a result, the preposition that international law is a factor for change in international affairs appears unrealistic. For the author international law i ...
• | Global Governance Initiative : An initiative to improve the state of the world
  The World Economic Forum has launched the Global Governance Initiative to monitor progress in the global effort to implement the ambitious social, economic and environmental goals set forth in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and other documents. ...
• | Globalisation and Its Discontents
  Review of this powerful, unsettling book which gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touc ...
• | Globalizaçao para todos. Taxaçao solidaria sobre os fluxos financeiros internacionais
  Compilation of documents related to the implementation of a Financial Transaction Tax.
• | Globalization and Governance
  The following remarks were made by Gordon Smith to the 2001 annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission in London. Gordon Smith is Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair ...
• | Going public. Southern solutions to the global water crisis
  "Going Public: Southern solutions to the global water crisis" sets out a new vision for public water services. The report features public water experts from Brazil, Cambodia, India and Uganda, describing the successes they have had in connecting the poor t ...
• | Ha llegado la hora de la paz
  Artículo de Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami y S. Nair en “El País”, con propuestas de solución a los conflictos en Oriente Próximo (Palestina, Israel, Líbano, …).
• | How to feed the world in 2050
  By 2050 the world's population will reach 9.1 billion, 34 per cent higher than today. Nearly all of this population increase will occur in developing countries. Urbanization will continue at an accelerated pace, and about 70 per cent of the world's populat ...
• | ICPD+5: Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action
  In 1999, the UN General Assembly convened a special session, ICPD+5, to review progress towards meeting the ICPD goals. The review revealed that greater urgency was needed to achieve the Programme of Action, especially in the areas of education and literac ...
• | IMF / WBG Annual Meetings 2009 (cast)
  The sixth and seventh of October the IMF and WBG Annual Meetings were held in Istanbul (Turkey) with four main issues in the oficial agenda while the civil society agenda had diferent issues in contrast with the official one.
• | IMF / WBG Annual Meetings 2009 (cat)
  The sixth and seventh of October the IMF and WBG Annual Meetings were held in Istanbul (Turkey) with four main issues in the oficial agenda while the civil society agenda had diferent issues in contrast with the official one.
• | IMF / WBG Annual Meetings 2009 (eng)
  The sixth and seventh of October the IMF and WBG Annual Meetings were held in Istanbul (Turkey) with four main issues in the oficial agenda while the civil society agenda had diferent issues in contrast with the official one.
• | IMF: Shrink it or Sink it
  The International Monetary Fund is perhaps at its most vulnerable state in years. It is suffering a triple crisis--a crisis of legitimacy, a budget crisis,and a role crisis--that is unparalleled in its 62 years of existence. These circumstances provide cri ...
• | In larger freedom. Towards development, security and humans rights for all
  In this report the former UN Secretary-General, mr. Koffi Annan, puts forward a comprehensive deal for tackling poverty, security threats and human rights abuses while overhauling the United Nations through a set of recommendations slated for action by nat ...
• | Initiatives for Global Democratization
  NIGD and the Finnish Ministry for Foreing Affairs launched the North-South Dialogues- process in spring 2001. The process was set to develop new ideas about democratizing globalization and to evaluate these ideas and a number of other prominent political i ...
• | Israel,... no oprimas a tu hermano, estas sembrando vientos y tempestades
  ¿Israel, hasta cuándo continuarás oprimiendo a tus hermanos? ¿Hasta cuándo continuarás sembrando la muerte, torturas y justificando lo injustificable para destruir al pueblo palestino? ¿Tienes la respuesta, o sólo escuchas la sordera de tu propia voz? Lo ...
• | Keeping the promise: united to achieve the MDG's
  Outcome document of the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals +10
• | Kyoto Protocol Status of Ratification
  As of 6 April 2005, 148 states and regional economic integration organizations have deposited instruments of ratifications, accessions, approvals or acceptances. This document contains the latest information concerning dates of signature and ratification r ...
• | La Argentina en el túnel del tiempo
  Politic practices, economy and Argentina's present situation from the point of view of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
• | Le temps d'agir
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• | Logic of Globalisation: Tensions and Governability
  After two decades of implementation of deep economic reforms such as the opening of the economy and the economic integration within a "global economy", a significant group of nations - specially those at the periphery of capitalism - has shown poor per cap ...
• | Los desafíos del fin de siglo
  Challenges facing new century.
• | L’heure de la paix est arrivée
  Article de Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami et S. Nair dans « El País », avec des propositions de solution aux conflits au Moyen-Orient (Palestine, Israël, le Liban, …).
• | Madrid Declaration
  Declaration of the First International Meeting on Peace Culture held in Madrid during december 2000.
• | Mecanismes financers innovadors per al finançament al desenvolupament
  Recopilation made by Federico Mayor Zaragoza of some of the most relevant innitiatives related to Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Financing for Development by.
• | Mecanismos financieros innovadores para la financiación al desarrollo
  Recopilation made by Federico Mayor Zaragoza of some of the most relevant innitiatives related to Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Financing for Development by.
• | Meeting the Challenges of UN Reform : A South Perspective
  This South Centre Analytical Note provides a brief background of UN reform since the start of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's tenure in 1997. It outlines tension that underscore the UN reform process, highlinghts current UN Reforms and offers developping ...
• | Message on World Water Day
  Nowadays, about 700 million in 43 countries suffer from waters scarcity, and by 2025 this figure could increase to more than 3 billion people.The state of the world’s waters remains fragile, and the need for an integrated and sustainable approach to water ...
• | Misión: La Tierra
  In the application of "Misión, la Tierra," it would constitute a priority accepted by all citizens of the world to refound United Nations so that all could be interlocutors of a new dialogue to establish the necessary "contracts" to appropriately confront ...
• | New capitalism?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• | New Global Brahmanism and the Meaning of the WTO
  Dr. Vandana Shiva explains to Rebecca Gordon and Bob Wing why globalisation and free trade are new forms of colonialism and how it affects people of color around the world. The interview was conducted on March 4, 2000.
• | New Partnership for Africa's Development
  The new Partnership for Africa's Development is a call for a new relationship of partnership between Africa and the international community, especially the highly industrialised countries, to overcome the development chasm that has widened over centuries o ...
• | Nou capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• | Odious lending: debt relief as if morals mattered
  This new research from NEF says that the time has come to look again at foreign debts forced wrongly on developing countries - so-called 'odious debt' - and shift the spotlight onto the 'odious lenders' - the bankers who made large loans to illegal regimes ...
• | Open Letter to John Ruggie
  Open Letter to Mr. John Ruggie UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights asking him for a better protection of Human Rights.
• | Open letter to the Security-Council and General Assembly members on the UNSG selection process
  During the last year, civil society groups that are strongly committed to upholding the UN Charter and its principles have been working together to develop a basic set of proposals on improving the selection process. Having taken into account a broad range ...
• | Organizational reform and the expansion of the south's voice at the Fund
  In this paper it is argued that a variety of organizational changes are both feasible and could substantially increase the ability of developing countries to articulate policy alternative and advance change. It refers particularly on changes in the recruit ...
• | Other axis of evil, The
  We need to be aware that neo-liberal globalisation is attacking the social order on three fronts. The economic front is the most important since it affects all humanity. It is presided over by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World T ...
• | Our Global Neighbourhood
  As we approach tne next century, a new world is taking shape. This world presents new dangers, new problems, and new challenges. BUt it also offers the real hope of creating a safer and more equitable era. The future is now in our hands. This bool points ...
• | Participation: an essential part of fighting
  EAPN will contribute to the achievement of the presented outcomes through continuing to build the active involvement of people who experience poverty and exclusion in the network and by making the network structures increasingly accountable to the organisa ...
• | Peace Bureau deplores military spending rise, urges investments to counter poverty and climate change
  The International Peace Bureau has expressed profound concern at the announcement yesterday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute at the launch of its annual Yearbook that world military expenditures in 2006 reached a new high of $1204 bi ...
• | Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s
  This Plan of Action is intended as a guide for national Governments, international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and all other sectors of society in formulating their own programmes of action for ensuring the ...
• | Poder ciudadano
  Citizens power lies in participation, in the commitment. Another world is possible if governments know that, from now, their functions must not be developed for the citizens but with the citizens.
• | Political Initiatives to Democratize Globalization
  The Department for International Development Cooperation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland proposed to hold this workshop on North- South Dialogue on Democracy and Globalization in Helsinki on 19-20 June 2001. The implementing agency for the works ...
• | Proposal to reform the system of international institutions. Future scenarios
  Paper drafted by the Ubuntu forum ad hoc secretariat and John Foster on the occasion of the Seminar on future scenarios for the reform of the System of International Institutions which took place in Barcelona on 12 and 13 March 2004, under the framework of ...
• | Put your money where your mouth is
  World Bank Campaign Europe Statement: We urge European governments to use these contributions to leverage reform at the WB during the current funding "replenishment" round, to ensure that the Bank becomes an agency that acts in the interest of the world's ...
• | Reform of International institutions, The
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article. "We must dare to seek alternative solutions and new ways of managing and responding to the challenges that face the world. Being different is our wealth, acting together our strength".
• | Reforming the IMF: Back to the Drawing Board
  A genuine reform of the IMF would require as much a redirection of its activities as improvements in its policies and operational modalities. There is no sound rationale for the Fund to be involved in development and trade policy, or in bail-out operation ...
• | Reinventing UNCTAD
  The paper highlights the role and influence of UNCTAD in global economy governance and stresses its continuing relevance and the importance of revitalizing UNCTAD's work so as to bring it once again to the forefront of multilateral efforts to deal with the ...
• | Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women
  (Beijing, 4-15 September 1995)
• | Report of the International Conference on Population and Development
  Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 5-13 September 1994)
• | Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II)
  Report of the HABITAT II conference held in El Cairo.
• | Report of the World Conference on Human Rights
  Report of the Secretary-General for the WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS. Vienna, 14-25 June 1993
• | Report of the World Summit for Social Development
  The present document is a preliminary version of the report of the World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995)
• | Report on the Paris Ministerial Conference on Innovative Development Financing Mechanims
  On February 28-March 1, President Chirac of France convened a Ministerial Conference on Innovative Financing for Development, attended by approximately 600 people, including representatives of 93 states, 3 heads of state, more than 70 ministers, the UN Sec ...
• | Siglo XXI: un mundo mejor o 'un mundo feliz'?
  Article about the main challenges that we are facing since the year 2000. Future deals with topics such as: poverty, water, development, mundialisation, education, technology, ethics and so on.
• | Social Watch Report 2006: Impossible Architecture
  Social Watch is an international coalition comprising 400 non-governmental organizations in some 60 countries. Its annual report is the world's most highly recognized independent study on social development. The Social Watch Report 2006 explains the probl ...
• | Some Issues and Priorities in Building Democratic Global Governance and Institutions
  The world is getting more and more "globalised". The integration is taking place economically, as more countries are getting more "integrated" in the world economy through finance, investment and trade. Culturally, global integration is also taking place t ...
• | Statement by June Zeitlin, WEDO, at the Informal Thematic Debate: Climate Change as a Global Challenge
  Climate change is indeed a global challenge. I would like to take a moment to put a human face on the impact of climate change—particularly a woman’s face—and highlight how women have been adapting to climate change in their communities before scientists g ...
• | Summary of proposals to Reform the System of International Institutions
  The aim of this paper, which gathers some of the most important proposals made to reform the system of international isntitutions, is to form a starting point for reflection on these issues.
• | Tiempo de Acción
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• | Time for Action
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• | Time for peace has come
  Article written by Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami and S. Nair in “El País”, proposing solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, …).
• | Toward Understanding Global Governance
  Since 1991, The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American SOciety of International Law (ASIL) have annually co-sponsored a two-week workshop on international organizations for scholars and practicioners, which purposes are : to ...
• | Towards a new International Financial Architecture
  Statement submitted by the European Network on Finance and Development, presenting some proposals to disminish the impact of the financial crises.
• | Transforming the world in crisis. Prague NGO Declaration
  We, participants of the conference The World in Crisi: Economies and Policies for Global Trasnformation have discussed for three days in Prague the root causes, impacts and responses to the financial crises, economic meltdown, climate change, mismanagement ...
• | Un nouveau capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• | Un voto por la cordura
  Message of serenity and sanity to face the recent terrorist attacks. Written by Rigoberta Menchú.
• | UNCCD COP9 Buenos Aires (CAST)
  The ninth United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)Conference of the Parties was held in Buenos Aires along with the eighth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC8) and the ninth session of t ...
• | UNCCD COP9 Buenos Aires (CAT)
  The ninth United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)Conference of the Parties was held in Buenos Aires along with the eighth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC8) and the ninth session of t ...
• | UNCCD COP9 Buenos Aires (ENG)
  The ninth United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)Conference of the Parties was held in Buenos Aires along with the eighth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC8) and the ninth session of t ...
• | Under the influence. How the International Financial Institutions fund deforestation in Asia Pacific
  In this report Jubilee Australia explores the links between International Financial Instituttions, deforestation and climate change.
• | Unfinished story of women and the United Nations, The
  This book covers more than 85 years of history between women and inter-governmental organizations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book recalls the success story of women and the League of Nations and describes the unfolding history of ...
• | United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millenniu ...
• | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was aprobed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10th 1948 as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations to promote respect for human rights and freedoms and trying to sec ...
• | Universal Jurisdiction : 14 Principles on the Effective Exercise of Universal Jurisdiction
  An overwhelming majority of states at the Diplomatic Conference in Rome in June and July 1998 favoured giving the International Criminal Court the same universal jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes which they themselves have. ...
• | Urgent: refondations des Nations Unies
  Il faut refonder des Nations Unies qui permettront, comme cela a été établi en 1945, de tenir en compte des générations futures.
• | Urgent: Refounding of the United Nations
  As in 1945, it is necessary to refound the United Nations for the sake of our future generations.
• | Urgente: refundación de las Naciones Unidas
  Es preciso refundar unas Naciones Unidas que permitan, como establecieron en 1945, tener en cuenta a las generaciones venideras.
• | Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
  Text adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Viena on the 25th June 1993.
• | We the Peoples
  This report provides a "snapshot" of civil society enganging with the United Nations Millenium Declaration. The implementation of the Millenium Declaration and its development Goals provides fertile ground for deeper ongoing collaboration between the UN an ...
• | What happened at the G20? Initial Analysis of the London Summit
  G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam's research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittan ...
• | What is the role of transnational civil society in the creation of a cosmopolitan democracy?
  Globalization has rendered the Westphalian model of diplomacy and politics obsolete. Governments are increasingly losing its sovereignity in the sense that other actors are consistently bypassing their authority in itnernational transactions. As a result, ...
• | Why we Don't need a new International Environmental Organization
  The premise of this essay is that the current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United N ...
• | Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries
  Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries presents a new, path breaking model of global trade as a tool to analyze the potential impacts of the negotiations and underlying economic interests of the WTO’s diverse members. This ne ...
• | World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
  Agreed at the World Summit for Children on 30 September 1990
• | World Democratic Governance
  Almost 20 years after the "Washington Consensus", and nearly 10 years after the fall of the "Berlin Wall", the system of international instituttions has become polarised, split into two branches. On the one hand there is UN, on the other are the economic, ...
• | World Order after the Lebanon war
  Richard Falk's paper about the importance of the Lebanon war in the system.
• | World Reaffirms Cairo: Official Outcomes of the ICPD at Ten Review
  UNFPA, in cooperation with the relevant agencies, published in early 2005 a compendium of the official outcomes of the ICPD at Ten, entitled "The World Reaffirms Cairo: Official Outcomes of the ICPD at Ten Review". The volume contains, in multiple language ...
• | World Summit on Sustainable Development: Was it worthwhile?
  A new IIED paper reviewing the achievements and challenges of the Johannesburg Summit
• | ¿Nuevo capitalismo?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.