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United Nations Reform
United Nations’ official reform site
- Contains links to official UN reform proposals.
Global
Policy Forum’s UN reform site - This site contains an impressive compilation
of analyses, source documents, news coverage and other resources on UN reform.
UN Foundation's Initiative on the UN and Global Security - An excellent
source for information on the SG's panel on Threats, Challenges and Change,
including a treasure trove of short expert papers and a feedback mechanism.
Wilson Center Event: The Future of the United Nations - Summary of a
high-level panel on the future of the UN that was held in February 2004 at the
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. It featured Louise Fréchette
(Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations), Jean David Levitte (Ambassador
of France to the United States), John Ruggie (Kirkpatrick Professor of
International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), and Richard S.
Williamson, (partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and former Special Ambassador to
the United Nations for Political Affairs). David Birenbaum, a senior scholar at
the Wilson Center, chaired and moderated the panel.
Funding of US Obligations
Better World Campaign: US-UN Relations - Contains background and regular
updates about US legislative activity on funding for the United Nations.
Winter 2004 BWC Legislative Update: The FY05 President’s Budget Request -
This fact sheet from the Better World Campaign details how the President’s
budget request for next year, FY 2005, addresses the funding of the UN and its
related agencies. (PDF Format)
CFR and Freedom House Report: Enhancing U.S. leadership at UN -
This 2002 report of an independent task force on UN reform, cosponsored by the
Council on Foreign Relations
and Freedom House, details the task
force’s assessment of U.S.-UN relations and suggestions for a new strategy for
improving the effectiveness and reputation of the U.S. at the UN. One of its
recommendations is a UN democracy group.
COLEAD - A coalition of foreign affairs
organizations; a good source for the latest on the U.S. foreign affairs budget.
Global Policy Forum: UN Financial Crisis - An exhaustive source of analysis,
coverage, commentary and history on the UN funding crisis.
Community of
Democracies and UN Democracy Group
Council for a Community of Democracies -
Site contains information about the Community of Democracies, news coverage,
upcoming and past events, and other resources.
Democracy Coalition
Project - Contains extensive resources on the Community of Democracies
process and UN democracy group proposals.
Democratization of
Global Governance
Brookings Institution/Carnegie Endowment Event: The Future of Global Governance
- Transcript of event featuring Strobe Talbott, Ann Florini and James Steinberg
of the Brookings Institution, and
Jessica Matthews of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
“Civil Society and Democracy in Global Governance” by Jan Aart Scholte -
Recent years have witnessed substantial civil society mobilization on questions
of global governance. This 2001paper considers the implications of this
development for democracy.
Democracy Coalition Project -- This page on democratization of international
institutions contains information on the Club of Madrid, IMF reforms and a UN
democracy group.
One World Trust’s Global Accountability Project Report
- This 2003 report is
the first of its kind to compare accountability of inter-governmental
organizations, transnational corporations and non-governmental organizations.
Eighteen organizations are assessed in this 2003 pilot report.
Reform Proposals for the Governance Structures of IFIs - This
New Rules for Global Finance briefing
paper looks at reform proposals for the governance structures of the
international financial institutions, i.e., the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. (PDF Format)
Report of the
World Commission on the Social Dimension on Globalization - Focusing
on issues of governance and accountability, the Commission, among other things,
recommends in this 2004 report a series of coordinated measures across a broad
front at both national and international levels in the areas of trade,
investment, finance, migration and labor.
International
Organizations' Web Sites
The International Monetary
Fund
The
World Bank
The United
Nations
The World
Trade Organization
NGO Web Sites
Better World
Campaign
Center for UN Reform
Education
Global Policy Forum
United Nations
Association-USA
United Nations
Foundation
World Federalist Movement
Miscellaneous
Debating the Tobin Tax - This 2003 volume of financial policy research
produced by the New Rules for Global Finance
Coalition explores the arguments for and against the Tobin Tax, which
would impose a small tax on transactions in foreign currency and possibly a
broader array of financial instruments. (PDF Format)
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