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	Reform of the United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, reformers have proposed that with incremental and simultaneous attention to these points, it is possible that the interests of the large and small nations might be reconciled through compromise in order to avert the anarchy and relative powerlessness of the present system which hamper the interests of both large and small nations.
		It is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which was often criticised for the high-profile positions it gave to member states that did not guarantee the human rights of their own citizens.
		In the United States, and particularly in the United States Congress, this is linked to demands that the UN adopt policies which encourage the development of free market economies and cease what are seen as socialist and anti-American policies and actions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_of_the_United_Nations (1854 words)

	Reform of the United Nations Security Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reform of the United Nations Security Council encompasses a variety of proposals, including procedural reforms, such as eliminating the veto held by the five permanent members, and expansion of the Council.
		(See also Israel and the United Nations.) One of the main drives behind this are situations in which all but one of the fifteen nations on the Security Council vote to support a measure that is relatively unimportant, such as administrative decisions.
		The United States in particular would strongly oppose this on the grounds that it would make the actions of the United States subject to international approval, and would also increase the likelihood of resolutions critical of Israel being passed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council (864 words)

	Calendar Reform at the United Nations
		In the United Nations, the issue of world calendar reform was formally raised by India with the lodgement of the document below in 1953.
		The subject of Calendar Reform has been exhaustively studied by the United Nations Secretariat as shown in a report by the Secretary-General in document E/465, dated 14 July 1947.
		Communication dated 28 October from the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations to the Secretary-General
	www.geocities.com /peacecrusader888/un.htm (998 words)

	The Online NewsHour: United Nations Reform Buildup to Reform PBS
		"United Nations" and "reform" are often "apt to be mentioned in the same breath," the Economist magazine wrote almost a decade ago.
		During the 1990s North Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a successful effort to withhold funding from the United Nations unless it heeded calls for reform.
		At the creation of the United Nations in 1945, the United States, along with the other World War II victors, consciously sought to make the institution an instrument of their collective desire to maintain both peace and control in the post-war world.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/un_reform/buildup.html (1608 words)

	United States and U.N. Reform - US Department of State
		Management reform at the United Nations is at the top of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s agenda, says Kristen Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She tells an audience in Washington that the United States needs “to see some serious, tangible progress in the short term, and long-term commitment” to reform.
		Although the United States will not be a member of the newly formed United Nations Human Rights Council, it will observe and support the work of the council, and will advocate the membership of countries that are “genuinely committed to human rights,” says Mark Lagon, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs.
		The League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations (©AP/WWP)
	usinfo.state.gov /is/international_security/UNGA_2005.html (374 words)

	BWNS: Baha'is address historic UN hearings
		UNITED NATIONS, 5 July 2005 (BWNS) -- A representative of the Baha'i International Community outlined specific recommendations for reform of the United Nations during an address at historic hearings between non-governmental organizations and the UN General Assembly.
		Diane Ala'i, a representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations in Geneva, prepares for her role as an "active participant" on 23 June 2005 at the United Nations during informal interactive hearings with the UN General Assembly.
		The Baha'i International Community's representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Diane Ala'i, was also chosen as an "active participant" in the hearing on human rights, which was held 23 June.
	news.bahai.org /story.cfm?storyid=380 (551 words)

	Choike - UN reform
		The mission of the Center for UN Reform Education is to encourage, generate and sustain a serious public discussion of various specific proposals to reform and restructure the United Nations System, all with a view toward improving the effectiveness of that System.
		Despite the fact that the United States was one of the driving forces behind establishing the United Nations in 1945 and initiated many of the multilateral treaties that have encouraged cooperation on our planet, there has been a steady decline in the U.S. government’s support of the UN and the agreements it helped establish.
		United Nations Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/2266.html (6254 words)

	United Nations Reform: Challenges and Prospects
		Such a distinguished panel of witnesses is evidence of the importance we attach to the reform of the United Nations.
		Neither was anything done by the appropriate commissions and committees of the United Nations to assist the victims of mass murder and there is no other word for it, in Srebrenica and elsewhere in Bosnia, in their hour of greatest need.
		The Sierra Leone Special Court, a joint venture of the United Nations and the Sierra Leone Government, is helping to provide transitional justice to a society long ravaged by a brutal, bloody civil war.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/intlrel/hfa20055.000/hfa20055_0.HTM (16352 words)

	The Online NewsHour: United Nations Reform Security Council Expansion PBS
		Part of a wider overhaul meant to strengthen and re-legitimize the United Nations following tensions over the Iraq war, the reform of the council also stems from demands from third-world countries and newly emerging economic and political powers for inclusion in a council they say fails to reflect the international community.
		North Korea and South Korea dislike the idea of a permanent seat for Japan, the United Nations' second largest financial contributor after the United States.
		Since then, member states have fought bitterly over which of the 191 nations would gain the choicest seats on the council, perhaps joining Britain, France, China, Russia and United States -- the councils only veto-holding, permanent nations -- as the world community's judge and jury.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/un_reform/sec_expansion.html (1426 words)

	Scoop: A Report Card on Reform of the United Nations
		Your continued scrutiny and attention to both the reform of the United Nations and critical matters related to international peace and security discussed by the Security Council are vital.
		Although the United States is often accused of unilateralism, we have pursued multilateral efforts through the IAEA and in conjunction with the EU3, Russia, other like-minded nations and now the United Nations.
		Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0603/S00356.htm (2869 words)

	United Nations Focus on Reform
		The United Nations General Assembly is in the midst of one of its most challenging and historic sessions as it focuses its attention on fundamental reform of the Organization.
		The document is divided into three parts: an outline of objectives; the policy framework, including the means of implementation; and institutional issues and the recommended follow-up to the commitments made by governments during the cycle of major United Nations conferences held between 1990 and 1996.
		Its 12 November endorsement by consensus of the actions taken by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revitalize the international body represents a major impetus to preparing the United Nations for the challenges it must face in the twenty-first century.
	www.un.org /reform/focus.htm (4229 words)

	Suggested Revisions to the Charter of the United Nations
		The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General Assembly.
		A general conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine members of the Security Council.
		Representatives of the Members of the United Nations and officials of the Organization shall similarly enjoy such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent exercise of their functions in connection with the Organization.
	www.senie.com /users/cgs/CHARTER3.html (10321 words)

	On United Nations Reform
		The United Nations is important in each of these countries as a peacekeeper, a mediator, a unified voice of the global community on very difficult issues.
		It is therefore vital that the U.S. lead a the United Nations, that we have faith in the UN, pay our dues, promote reform and contribute to strengthen the UN for all the many challenges ahead.
		UN Reform is one of the most important issues facing the United States.
	www.state.gov /p/us/rm/2005/49900.htm (3931 words)

	Empower the United Nations !
		The conference - whose theme was "Toward a Democratic United Nations for the 21st Century" - included representatives of NGO's that have been active at the United Nations and who met for the purpose to prepare a plan of action to strengthen and improve the United Nations.
		In the context of not only the unfulfilled promises of the UN Charter, but also the justifiable aspirations and expectations of citizens of every state and nation, it ought not be forgotten that a universal spirit of democracy was embedded in the collective establishment of the United Nations.
		Member States of the United Nations have endorsed and approved moral and legal commitments in the UN Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights and in other international conventions and agreements.
	www.empowertheun.org /reformingun.html (3833 words)

	Welcome to the United States Mission to the United Nations
		U.S. Participation in the United Nations for 2004, September 2005
		Statement on "Investing in the United Nations" in the Fifth Committee by Ambassador Wallace
		Voting Practices in the United Nations for 2004
	www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov (587 words)

	For a Strong and Democratic United Nations - Table of Contents
		For a Strong and Democratic United Nations: A South Perspective on UN Reform was first published in March 1996 by the South Centre, Chemin du Champ-d'Anier 17, 1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland in association with the Government of Indonesia, as the Chair Country of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1992-1995.
		Developing Countries and the Reform of the United Nations
		For a Strong and Democratic United Nations - Table of Contents
	www.southcentre.org /publications/unreform/toc.htm (147 words)

	__/ Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations \__
		In September 2005, world leaders gathered in New York to lay the foundation for a fundamental reform of the United Nations system.
		In view of the upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the subsequent need to reinforce MONUC in order to ensure the smooth conduct of the electoral process, the United Nations requested the European Union to provide a force to support MONUC during the electoral period.
		Asia’s turn for the post of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations
	www.greeceun.org (1036 words)

	GovTrack: H.R. 2745: Text of Legislation
		4 (a) SHORT TITLE.--This Act may be cited as the 5 ``Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act of 2005''.
		The 6 United Nations should strengthen the 5.6 rule by requir- 7 ing that managers identify the lowest priority activities 8 equivalent to 15 percent of their budget request or face 9 an across the board reduction of such amount.
		HR 2745 PCS 25 1 (4) While the IOB shall have the authority to 2 evaluate all operations of the United Nations, the 3 primary mission of the IOB is to oversee the Office 4 of Internal Oversight Services and the Board of Ex- 5 ternal Auditors.
	www.govtrack.us /congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-2745 (4169 words)

	UNICEF hails United Nations reform plan
		Wednesday, 16 July 1997: The bold recommendations for reform announced today by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan grew out of a vision of a UN family dedicated to the most effective possible service to humanity, especially the world's children, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said.
		"UNICEF remains as committed to the reform of the entire UN as we are to our own two-year-old reform process and we and our colleagues in the United Nations and in its Funds and Programmes will work vigorously with the Secretary-General to help implement these measures."
		Bellamy said she was gratified at the report's emphatic references to the importance of preserving the identity and distinctiveness of the United Nations Funds and Programmes.
	www.unicef.org /newsline/97pr31.htm (276 words)

	Hearing: United Nations Reform -- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
		Hearing: United Nations Reform -- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
		Time: 10:00 AM Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
	foreign.senate.gov /hearings/2005/hrg050721a.html (29 words)

	UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		The United States and Russia would probably not have accepted the creation of the United Nations without the veto privilege.
		The five permanent members of the Security Council (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States) enjoy the privilege of veto power.
		A short bibliography of printed materials and electronic resources on the Security Council and Council reform, and an amusing photo gallery, showing members in the Council on the job and in other venues.
	globalpolicy.igc.org /security (572 words)

	United Nations
		The United Nations is currently engaged in one of the most important debates in its history: how to reform itself, strengthen itself as an institution, and ensure that it addresses effectively the threats and challenges of the 21st century.
		Under the UN Charter, the chief administrative officer of the UN and the head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed to a five-year term by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council.
		In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt, flanked by the leaders of 26 Allied countries, first coined the term "United Nations" to describe the continued fight against the Axis Powers.
	www.state.gov /p/io/fs/51371.htm (3943 words)

	SD: Institutions : After land reform, the market?
		With this situation in mind, in 1994 the Colombian Government passed the New Law of Agrarian Reform (Ley 160 de 1994).
		This law intends to create the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Peasant Development, introduces a subsidy scheme for land purchases by the rural poor and reforms the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform (INCORA).
		Economic policy after the coup d'état in 1973 prioritized private property and a process of returning land to the previous owners began.
	www.fao.org /waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/LTdirect/LTan0028.htm (7023 words)

	EU urged to lead in U.N. reform - (United Press International)
		Annan noted the steady growth in recent years in cooperation between Europe and the United Nations and said the strength of that partnership "gives me great hope" that far-reaching progress can be made on readying the international community to meet the threats of the 21st century.
		"Full European engagement will be essential" to discussions on the recently released report of a high-level panel he commissioned to look at emerging global threats and challenges and ways to deal with them at the United Nations, he told the European Union summit Friday in Brussels.
		EU urged to lead in U.N. reform - (United Press International)
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20041217-051857-3532r.htm (7023 words)

	Appendices - Global Policy and the United Nations Security Council - Giji Gya
		On November 23rd, the resolution was unanimously approved (GA/53/30) such that any charter amendment on Security Council reform must have a majority of at least two thirds of General Assembly vote.
		On 24 December 1991 the membership of the Soviet Union in the Security Council and all other UN organs was to be continued by the Russian Federation as presented in a letter to the UN by the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin.
		Sergey V.Lavrov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, at the General Assembly meeting on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters, (agenda item 59), Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN, November 19, 1998.
	www.sapereaude.org /unsc/thesis99/appendices.htm (4510 words)

	Reforming the United Nations Security Council: Will its Time Ever Come? - Global Policy Forum
		The impact was also felt in the Security Council, where Washington’s distemper led the Clinton administration to freeze U.N. peacekeeping missions after the wind-up of the operations in Bosnia and Eastern Slavonia.
		If we are going to keep the United States on the U.N. reservation, Security Council reform needs to assure that capable states are at its core.
		Jeffrey Laurenti is executive director of policy studies at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/reform/cluster1/2003/0513reforming.htm (2359 words)

	RBAS - United Nations Development Programme
		Forging a new Arab reform paradigm is one of the key objectives of the Arab Human Development Series, and to chart the signposts along these routes, the series is a beacon.
		The first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, principally as a critique of, and a charter for, development processes relevant both at the regional and country levels.
		The AHDR, and its evolution into a series, provides the Arab region, with a needed neutral forum for initiating dialogues and structuring debates to build a reform agenda from within.
	www.rbas.undp.org /ahdr.cfm (335 words)

	Welcome to UNDP Serbia and Montenegro
		UNDP will help establish policies to assist in the reform of the legal aid system, allowing all citizens’ access to justice and ensuring equality before the law.
		UNDP will continue to support judicial education, judicial system reform and the promotion of transitional justice issues.
		Support will be aimed at developing institutional capacity of the SCTM and the Municipal Training Centre, and assistance to the development of an appropriate training system for local administration and contributing to the development of a National Training Strategy for Local Governments in the Republic of Serbia.
	www.undp.org.yu (1010 words)

	UNDP Ethiopia Home
		UNDP in Ethiopia supports to form good Governance in helping the Civil Service Reform and the Judicial and Parliamentary Reform.
		The MDG campaign requires strong and consolidated partnerships, coherence of efforts, and information sharing.
		It also supports the sector of HIV/AIDS privations by helping capacity building and Gender issues.The following links can take you to the Six core UNDP-Ethiopia works and strategies:
	www.et.undp.org (229 words)

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