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The UN, People & Politics

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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 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.

 
Reforming the United Nations: Lessons from a History in Progress
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.
 
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