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UN Chronicle - Volume 52, Issue 2, 2015
Volume 52, Issue 2, 2015
A must-read for every concerned world citizen, the United Nations Chronicle is a quarterly, easy-to-read report on the work of the United Nations and its agencies. Produced by the United Nations Department of Public Information, every issue covers a wide range of United Nations related activities: from fighting the drug war to fighting racial discrimination, from relief and development to nuclear disarmament, terrorism, and the worldwide environmental crisis.
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Message on the 70th anniversary of the United Nations
More LessAuthor: Ban Ki-moonLong before I became Secretary-General, the United Nations occupied a special place in my life.
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Reflections on the UN at 70
More LessAuthor: Kofi AnnanSeventy years ago, world leaders gathered in San Francisco to sign a unique and historic document—the Charter of the United Nations. In the name of “We the peoples”, they charted a path to a world where faith in the dignity and worth of the human person would be reaffirmed.
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Seventy years of the United Nations
More LessAuthor: Boutros Boutros-GhaliTo highlight the achievements of the United Nations in the past 70 years would fill many volumes, and I’m afraid that writing about my wishes for the United Nations in the next seven decades would fill even more books.
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Independence and impartiality as the heart and soul of the Secretary-General
More LessAuthor: Javier Pérez de CuéllarMy United Nations memories reach very far back; as a young diplomat, I attended the first session of the General Assembly, in London, in 1946. It was a time of immense hope which was soon dashed. Before the end of the decade the permanent members of the Security Council were in open competition both ideologically and geopolitically. The collegiality between them, on which rested the collective security system, disappea Read More
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The role of the United Nations in ensuring a secure, prosperous and equitable world
More LessAuthor: Sam Kahamba KutesaSeventy years ago the world witnessed the conclusion of two months of intense multilateral diplomacy, with the signing of the Charter of the United Nations. In one of the defining acts of the twentieth century, representatives of 50 countries endorsed the formation of an international organization created in the hopes of preserving peace and building a better world for all.
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Towards a more secure, just and humane future
More LessAuthor: Mikhail GorbachevThe editors of the UN Chronicle asked me to contribute an article for this issue commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. I agreed, since this is an institution unlike any other in terms of its mission, its universality and the hopes vested in it when it was created. Throughout my political career, the United Nations played an important and significant role.
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A time for bold reforms
More LessAuthor: Gro Harlem BrundtlandWhen the United Nations was born in 1945, I was six years old. The world was emerging from the horrors of the Second World War and Norway was reasserting and re-establishing its democracy after five long years of Nazi occupation. By the time I was ten, my family was living in New York and I was proud and keenly aware that a fellow Norwegian, Trygve Lie, had become the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. Little di Read More
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Strong UN. Better world: A veteran’s view
More LessAuthor: Margaret Joan AnsteeThe United Nations, founded in 1945 with high hopes for international peace and security after the horrors of two world wars, has reached the venerable age of three score years and ten and it is time to take stock.
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From rhetoric to reality: United Nations personnel are driving change
More LessAuthor: Navi PillayThe United Nations has come a long way since it was established, 70 years ago, by sovereign States to resolve inter-State disputes. Its massive efforts in peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and setting global standards compel me to wonder what we would have done without it. Like everyone, I recognize the magnitude of the crisis that the United Nations—and indeed, the world—faces today. First, though, I want to focus on a fe Read More
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Striving for human security
More LessAuthor: Sadako OgataWhen I started my work as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in February 1991—as the first woman, the first Japanese, and the first academic in that post—the world had just moved away from the rigidly controlled cold war structure. Within weeks of my arrival in Geneva, almost 2 million Iraqi Kurds had fled to Iran and Turkey in the aftermath of the Gulf War. That was the beginning of my turbulen Read More
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A new agenda: The role of multilateralism in a complex and changing world
More LessAuthor: Rima KhalafThe 70th anniversary of the United Nations presents an opportunity to take stock, recognizing our successes and acknowledging our shortcomings.
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Looking back, moving forward
More LessAuthor: Amina J. MohammedSeventy years ago, during the closing days of the Second World War, representatives of 50 nations attended the United Nations Conference on International Organizations in San Francisco, leading to the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, that came into force on 24 October 1945. The Charter is as relevant today as it was seven decades ago. The United Nations was forged through a unified resolve to uphold peace Read More
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The United Nations at 70 and the ongoing quest for gender equality
More LessAuthor: Phumzile Mlambo-NgcukaAs we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, let us look back and acknowledge what has been achieved. During those seven decades the world has changed enormously. This anniversary is therefore also an opportunity to assess what more the international community needs to do to meet the new challenges.
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From independence to long-term stability United Nations efforts in Africa
More LessAuthor: Aïchatou MindaoudouOver the past 70 years, the scope of the work of the United Nations has expanded greatly, to include issues such as climate change, sport for development and peace, and road safety. When I look back however, I feel that the United Nations has played the most significant role in those areas that are at the core of the Charter of the United Nations: the maintenance of international peace and security, the promotion of h Read More
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The United Nations at 70 Working as one to deliver a healthy future for all
More LessAuthor: Fatoumata Nafo-TraoréIn December 1948, following years of war and violence of previously unimaginable proportions, the world came together in Paris, where the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under the driving force of the formidable Eleanor Roosevelt—widow of former President of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt—this Declaration complemented the relativ Read More
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A key United Nations moment and its lessons
More LessAuthor: Álvaro de SotoThe recollection of United Nations moments that tends to crowd out all others in my mind took place at midnight on the last day in office of then Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 31 December 1991, at the initialing of the agreement to end the 12- year war in El Salvador—the first United Nations mediation of an internal conflict. I may be accused of blowing my own trumpet because of my own role in it, but so be it. Read More
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Preventing the use of child soldiers, preventing genocide
More LessAuthors: Roméo A. Dallaire and Shelly WhitmanWe are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-State conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains how to create the political impetus for timely, non-selective responses to human suffering (MacFarlane and Weiss, 2000). At the very heart of the human suffering we are witnessing the plight of vulnerable populations, and most notably children. Of all the threats th Read More
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For we, the peoples... Revisiting Dag Hammarskjöld’s legacy in applying and adapting the Charter for a stronger and more effective United Nations
More LessAuthor: Henrik HammargrenIn October 2015, the United Nations commemorates its 70th anniversary, and on this occasion it is appropriate to consider the relevance of the founding document, the Charter of the United Nations. The Organization has evolved with a changing world and it is up to Member States to keep strengthening its capabilities and recommit to the purposes and principles of the Charter. The visions and values articulated by the seco Read More
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