A detailed examination of the global justice movement as a representation of public opinion through the activities and objectives of the World Social Forum movement, whose ubiquitous slogan is'another world is possible'.
This report presents an analysis of the effectiveness of the United Nations and outlines measures which can significantly reform the body to ensure that it can more readily realise its humanitarian mandate and exert greater control over the global economy.
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 tensions that underscore the UN reform process, highlights current
UN Reforms and offers developing country perspectives on each. It
concludes with some recommendations regarding UN reform.
The never-ending quest for reform, for improving the functioning of the
United Nations, has been an integral part of the life of the world body
since its earliest days. Indeed, one of the more controversial issues
at the United Nations’ founding conference in San Francisco during the
spring of 1945 was how the process of amending its Charter should be
structured and when a general review conference of the Charter’s
provisions should be called.