OUR VISION
Our vision is a world that is human-centered and genuinely democratic,
where all human beings are full participants and determine their own
destinies. In our vision, we are one human family, in all our diversity,
living in one common homeland and sharing a just, sustainable and peaceful
world, guided by universal principles of democracy, equality, inclusion,
volunteerism, non-discrimination and participation by all persons, men and
women, young and old, regardless of race, faith, disability, sexual
orientation, ethnicity or nationality. It is a world where peace and human
security, as envisioned in the principles of the United Nations Charter,
replace armaments, violent conflict and wars. It is a world where everyone
lives in a clean environment and with a fair distribution of the earth’s
resources. Our vision includes a special role for the dynamism of young
people and the experience of the elderly and reaffirms the universality,
indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights – civil,
political, economic, social and cultural.
STRENGTHENING AND DEMOCRATIZING THE UNITED NATIONS AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
A major task of the world community in the twenty-first century will be
to strengthen and greatly enhance the role of the United Nations in the
global context. Governments must recommit themselves to the realization of
the goals and mandates of the United Nations Charter. A challenging task
is to firmly protect the integrity of the United Nations, counter the
erosion of its role and to further strengthen and augment international
institutions capable of implementing and enforcing international
standards, norms and law, leading toward the formation of a new political
order.
(Tasks for) THE UNITED NATIONS
To make the Security Council more representative of the world.
Permanent membership in the Security Council is problematic because it
blocks change and fails to accommodate evolving realities. Thus, the UN
should begin to phase out the existing permanent membership in favor of a
more flexible and accountable system. The Council should be immediately
enlarged with newly elected members drawn from the member States from
different regions of the world on a rotational basis.
IR Note: The UN Security Council is the one place where the United
States has been able to defend its interests. It’s ability to veto
policies that go against the interests of the United States are now viewed
as "problematic."
To make the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the locus of a more
effective, integrated system of international justice. The compulsory
jurisdiction of the World Court must be accepted by all states. In the
absence of voluntary compliance, the Security Council should enforce ICJ
decisions and other international legal obligations under Article 94 of
the UN Charter.
IR Note: See how it works. Remove the United States from permanent
membership of the Security Council. Then, if the U.S. refuses to recognize
the UN Criminal Court or any other UN dictate, the new Security Council
can vote to enforce it on us. Then the situation will no longer be
"problematic." That’s how dictatorships operate.
(Tasks for) GOVERNMENTS
To increase substantially the regular and peacekeeping budgets of the
United Nations.
To pay UN dues on time, in full and without conditions. UN discussion
of global taxes and fees had been stifled by the threat of a funding cut
by a single member state. This blackmail must be rejected and the UN must
vigorously explore the possibilities of alternate finding from such
sources.
IR Note: The United States is the "single member state." It
is also the nation that has paid more than a third of the UN’s budget,
supplied the majority of UN peacekeeping forces and budgets, provided the
UN headquarters and keeps the organization alive. Yet, to the UN
bureaucrat the U.S. simply represents one vote and a treasury full of
money. Now our attempt to have a say in how our money is being spent is
called "blackmail."
To move towards creation of alternative revenue sources for the United
Nations. The UN should set up expert groups and begin the necessary
intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue
sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans,
fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic
spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions (i.e. the Tobin Tax), and
a tax on the carbon content of fuels.
IR Note: The Tobin Tax, alone, would pour over one billion dollars a
year into the UN coffers. Also note, today, gasoline would only cost about
71 cents per gallon without government taxes. Now the UN proposes an
international tax on top of those. Can you afford a global government?
To extend consultative rights of access and participation to NGO’s.
Governments should complete the process of extending to NGO’s rights of
access and participation in the General Assembly and its Main Committees
and subsidiary bodies.
IR Note: This proposal calls for giving equal governing status to
non-governmental organizations (NGO’s). These are private groups, never
elected to anything. They simply apply to the UN for NGO status. If the UN
likes them, status is granted. If not – they are barred. NGO’s Include
most of the radical environmental movement, Planned Parenthood, Mikhail
Gorbachev’s "Green Cross" and the earth-worshipping Temple of
Understanding. They are elected by no one. They represent only their own
narrow interests. And they can be counted on to support the UN’s drive
for global governance. Under the UN’s new Charter for Global Democracy,
they will be installed as your new global government.
