There are more organizations workings towards a refom of the international organizations like the Refom Campaign.
This is a campaign promoted by a number of actors in world civil society in response to the serious problems the world faces today. As part of it, we claim our democratic right to take part in the global decisions that affect our lives.
The campaign's objective is to spark off a process leading to the reform of the system of international institutions with the participation of all world actors and moving towards a system of global democratic governance that can help us to build a better world.
This campaign Manifesto, along with the endorsements received for it, will be submitted to the UN General Assembly with a call for the organisation of a World Conference on Reform of the System of
International Institutions. In order to obtain as many signatures as possible for the manifesto, it is essential that we all, within our possibilities, help to promote and spread the campaign.
London Declaration, 1 April 2004
The globalisation process increases both the interdependent nature of the problems facing the world and the gap between rich and poor. Markets are more and more global, but the influence of the political institutions necessary to ensure that these operate in a democratic, equitable and efficient way diminishes day by day. Global economic institutions increasingly apply policies that favour the market and the large corporations to the detriment of policies promoting sustainable human development approved at the 1990s and the Millennium UN summits.
The weakening and marginalisation of the system of international institutions over peace and security issues has led to unilateral use of force in recent conflicts (this is the case of the war in Iraq). Rather than promoting conflict resolution through processes and rules established by the UN, the interests of the main superpower are imposed through military superiority, sowing the seeds of further violence throughout the world.
The present system of international institutions, established over 50 years ago in what was an important step forward in the history of humanity, suffers from considerable shortcomings leaving it ill-equipped to resolve the grave problems that face the world today. For this reason, it is necessary to reform the international institutions so that they can, once more, help to build a fairer, more equitable, diverse, sustainable, free and peaceful world and ensure that new policies are implemented to pursue the great objectives of global democracy and the promotion of human rights, peace and security throughout the world, sustainable human development and cultural diversity, as well as the consolidation of the global rule of law.
