09 May 2008

26 October 2007: Member States, civil society discuss Options Paper for environmental governance reforms. Click here for more information

17 October 2007: Peacebuilding Commission gives first annual report to General Assembly and Security Council. Click here for details

2 October 2007: Human Rights Council holds Special Session on Burma. Click here for more information

28 September 2007: Human Rights Council fine-tunes UPR, begins reviews of Special Procedures. Click here for details

18 September 2007: General Assembly opens 62nd Session, President Kerim prioritizes reforms to management, coherence, and Security Council. Click here for Member States� comments on reform

17 September 2007: General Assembly agrees to intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. Click here for decision

2 August 2007: General Assembly establishes Ad Hoc Working Group on GA revitalization. Click here for details

18 June 2007: Human Rights Council reaches agreement on institution-building measures on last day of first year. Click here for update

17 May 2007: General Assembly elects 14 states to Human Rights Council. New members' terms will begin 20 June. Click here for election details

3 May 2007: Member States debate transitional approach to Security Council reform. Click here for Facilitators' Report

20 November 2006: General Assembly adopts Resolution to strengthen Economic and Social Council. Click here to view the Resolution

9 November 2006: Secretary-General's High-level Panel releases recommendations for UN System-wide Coherence in development, humanitarian assistance, environment, and gender equity. Click here for news

16 October 2006: UN Peacebuilding Commission recommends Burundi and Sierra Leone for support from newly launched Fund. Click here for news

13 October 2006: South Korea Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ban Ki-Moon, appointed as the eighth UN Secretary-General. Click here for news

12 September 2006: 61st Session of General Assembly opens, new President Haya Al Khalifa urges progress on unfinished reforms. Click here for news

11 September 2006: 60th Session of General Assembly ends, outgoing President Jan Eliasson makes statement about unfinished reforms. Click here to read statement

8 September 2006: GA agrees on Global Counter Terrorism Strategy. Click here for more information

8 September 2006: General Assembly adopts Resolution on GA Revitalization. Click here for more information

7 July 2006: Agreement reached on modest management reforms after lifting budget cap for 2006-2007. Click here for press release

30 June 2006: General Assembly adopts resolution on follow-up to Development outcomes of World Summit, reaffirms Millennium Development Goals. Click here to view Resolution

19 June 2006: Human Rights Council holds inaugural session in Geneva. Click here to access the HRC website

September 2005: All UN Member States commit to reforms in 2005 UN Summit Outcome Document

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INTRO AND CORE DOCUMENTS

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

KEY WORLD SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP ISSUES

NEGOTIATIONS – ONGOING

General Assembly Revitalization

Management and Secretariat Reform

Responsibility to Protect

Security Council Reform

System-wide Coherence

NEGOTIATIONS - FINALIZED

Development / ECOSOC Reform

Human Rights Council

Peacebuilding Commission

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U.N. Reports, Statements, and Resolutions

What Governments are Saying

What International Organizations are Saying

What Parliamentarians are Saying

What Civil Society is Saying

2005 WORLD SUMMIT COVERAGE

PRE-SUMMIT DOCUMENTS

RESOURCES AND LINKS

Humanitarian Mandates to be Reviewed on 17 March

New York, 12 March 2008 – Informal consultations of the Working Group on Mandate Review, initially scheduled for today, were postponed. The meeting is now set to take place on Monday, 17 March at 10 am.

The focus will be on the cluster of mandates related to humanitarian assistance. The facilitators of the Working Group, the Permanent Representatives of Namibia and New Zealand, have made a preliminary determination that in the humanitarian cluster there are:

155 mandates that fully reflect current need and are effectively implemented (green);

26 mandates that would benefit from consolidation or strengthening (amber);

35 mandates on which action is needed to fill a gap or to discontinue (red); and

54 mandates that are already completed (gray).

For more on the mandate review process and the color-coded analysis, see ReformtheUN.org Latest Development Issue #238 (6 March 2008).

Resources

Summary of Findings by Co-ChairsHumanitarian Mandates Matrix (27 February 2008)

Website of General Assembly President on Mandate Review

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