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The United Nations Turns Eighty:
The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter
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At eighty, the United Nations is
bogged down by structural
limitations and political
divisions that render it
powerless to act decisively \u2013
nowhere more clearly than in the
Gaza genocide. </td>
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from the desk of <a
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<p align="left"
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is only one treaty in the
world that, despite its
limitations, binds nations
together: the United Nations
Charter. Representatives of
fifty nations wrote and
ratified the UN Charter in
1945, with others joining in
the years that followed. The
charter itself only sets the
terms for the behaviour of
nations. It does not and
cannot create a new world.
It depends on individual
nations to either live by
the charter or die without
it.</p>
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charter remains incomplete.
It needed a Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
in 1948, and even that was
contested as political and
civil rights had to
eventually be separated from
the social and economic
rights. Deep rifts in
political visions created
fissures in the UN system
that have kept it from
effectively addressing
problems in the world.</p>
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UN is now eighty. It is a
miracle that it has lasted
this long. The League of
Nations was founded in 1920
and lasted only eighteen
years of relative peace
(until World War II began in
China in 1937).</p>
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Tamayo (Mexico), <i>La
Fraternidad </i>(Brotherhood),
1968.</small></p>
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<p align="left"
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UN is only as strong as the
community of nations that
comprises it. If the
community is weak, then the
UN is weak. As an
independent body, it cannot
be expected to fly in like
an angel and whisper into
the ears of the belligerents
and stop them. The UN can
only blow the whistle, an
umpire for a game whose
rules are routinely broken
by the more powerful states.
It offers a convenient
punching bag for all sides
of the political spectrum:
it is blamed if crises are
not solved and if relief
efforts fall short. Can the
UN stop the Israeli genocide
in Gaza? UN officials have
made strong statements
during the genocide, with
Secretary General António
Guterres saying <a
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\u2018Gaza is a killing field \u2013
and civilians are in an
endless death loop\u2019 (8 April
2025) and <a
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the famine in Gaza is \u2018not a
mystery \u2013 it is a man-made
disaster, a moral
indictment, and a failure of
humanity itself\u2019 (22 August
2025). These are powerful
words, but they have
amounted to nothing, calling
into question the efficacy
of the UN itself.</p>
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Portinari (Brazil), <i>Guerra
e Paz (Guerra)</i>
(War and Peace: War),
1952.</small></p>
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UN is not one body but two
halves. The most public face
of the UN is the UN Security
Council (UNSC), which has
come to stand in as its
executive arm. The UNSC is
made up of fifteen
countries: five are
permanent members (China,
France, Russia, the United
Kingdom, and the United
States) and the others are
elected for two-year terms.
The five permanent members
(the P5) hold veto power
over the decisions of the
council. If one of the P5
does not like a decision,
they are able to scuttle it
with their veto. Each time
the UNSC has been presented
with a resolution calling
for a ceasefire, the United
States has exercised its
veto to quash even that
tepid measure (since 1972,
the United States has <a
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more than forty-five UNSC
resolutions about the
Israeli occupation of
Palestine). The UNSC stands
in for the UN General
Assembly (UNGA), whose one
hundred and ninety-three
members can pass resolutions
that try to set the tone for
world opinion but are often
ignored. Since the start of
the genocide, for instance,
the UNGA has passed five key
resolutions calling for a
ceasefire (the first in
October 2023 and the <a
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in June 2025). But the UNGA
has no real power in the UN
system.</p>
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Portinari (Brazil), <i>Guerra
e Paz (Paz) </i>(War
and Peace: Peace),
1957.</small></p>
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<p align="left"
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">The
other half of the UN is its
myriad agencies, each set up
to deal with this or that
crisis of the modern age.
Some predate the UN itself,
such as the International
Labour Organisation (ILO),
which was created in 1919
and brought into the UN
system in 1946 as its first
specialised agency. Others
would follow, including the
United Nations Children\u2019s
Fund (UNICEF), which
advocates for the rights of
children, and the United
Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), which
promotes tolerance and
respect for the world\u2019s
cultures. Over the decades,
agencies have been created
to advocate for and provide
relief to refugees, to
ensure nuclear energy is
used for peace rather than
war, to improve global
telecommunications, and to
expand development
assistance. Their remit is
impressive, although the
outcomes are more modest.
Meagre funding from the
world\u2019s states is one
limitation (in 2022, the
UN\u2019s total <a
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was $67.5 billion, compared
with over $2 trillion <a
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moz-do-not-send="true">spent</a>
on the arms trade). This
chronic underfunding is
largely because the world\u2019s
powers disagree over the
direction of the UN and its
agencies. Yet without them,
the suffering in the world
would neither be recorded
nor addressed. The UN system
has become the world\u2019s
humanitarian organisation
largely because neoliberal
austerity and war have
destroyed the capacity of
most individual countries to
do this work themselves, and
because non-governmental
organisations are too small
to meaningfully fill in the
gap.</p>
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id="caption-attachment-127846" class="wp-caption-text"
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Pauls-V\u012bgnere
(Latvia), <i>Hope</i>,
1994.</small></p>
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<p align="left"
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">With
the disintegration of the
Soviet Union, the entire
balance of the world system
changed and the UN went into
a cycle of internal reform
initiatives: from Boutros
Boutros-Ghali\u2019s <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=a97820fd6f&e=d206d0a40d"
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Agenda for Peace</i></a>
(1992) and <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=9dd5618a7d&e=d206d0a40d"
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Agenda for Development</i></a>
(1994) and Kofi Annan\u2019s <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=17eb52afdd&e=d206d0a40d"
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moz-do-not-send="true"><i>Renewing
the United Nations</i></a>
(1997) to Guterres\u2019 <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=09adfb3f8d&e=d206d0a40d"
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Common Agenda</i></a>
(2021), <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=f6a038faf8&e=d206d0a40d"
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of the Future</i></a>
(2024), and <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=db02bce398&e=d206d0a40d"
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Task Force</i></a>
(2025). The UN80 Task Force
is the deepest reform
imaged, but its three areas
of interest (internal
efficiency, mandate review,
and programme alignment)
have been attempted
previously (\u2018we\u2019ve tried
this exercise before\u2019, <a
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Under-Secretary-General for
Policy and Chair of the UN80
Task Force Guy Ryder). The
agenda set by the UN is
focused on its own
organisational weaknesses
and does not address the
largely political questions
that scuttle the UN\u2019s work.
A broader agenda would need
to include the following
points:</p>
<ol>
<li
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<p align="left"
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the UN Secretariat to
the Global South</b>.
Almost all UN agencies
are headquartered in
either Europe or the
United States, where the
UN Secretariat itself is
located. There have been
occasional proposals to
move UNICEF, the UN
Population Fund, and UN
Women to Nairobi, Kenya,
which already hosts the
<a
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Environment Programme</a>
and <a
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It is about time that
the UN Secretariat leave
New York and go to the
Global South, not least
to prevent Washington
from using visa denials
to punish UN officials
who criticise US or
Israeli power. With the
US preventing
Palestinian officials
from entering the US for
the UN General Assembly,
there have been calls
already to move the UNGA
meeting to Geneva. Why
not permanently leave
the United States?</p>
</li>
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<p align="left"
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funding to the UN from
the Global South</b>.
Currently, the largest
funders of the UN system
are the United States
(22%) and China (20%),
with seven close US
allies contributing 28%
(Japan, Germany, the
United Kingdom, France,
Italy, Canada, and South
Korea). The Global South
\u2013 without China \u2013
contributes about 26% to
the UN budget; with
China, its contribution
is 46%, nearly half of
the total budget. It is
time for China to become
the largest contributor
to the UN, surpassing
the US, which wields its
funding as a weapon
against the
organisation.</p>
</li>
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name="_heading=h.1ip6pzw4rfxj"
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<b>Increase funding for
humanitarianism within
states</b>. Countries
should be spending more
on alleviating human
distress than on paying
off wealthy bondholders.
The UN should not be the
main agency to assist
those in need. As we
have <a
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several countries on the
African continent spend
more servicing debt than
on education and
healthcare; unable to
provide these essential
functions, they come to
rely on the UN through
UNICEF, UNESCO, and the
WHO. States should build
up their own capacity
rather than depend on
this assistance.</p>
</li>
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<p align="left"
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><b>Cut
the global arms trade</b>.
Wars are waged not only
for domination but for
the profits of arms
dealers. Annual
international arms
exports are <a
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$150 billion, with the
United States and
Western European
countries <a
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for 73% of sales between
2020 and 2024. In 2023
alone, the top one
hundred arms
manufacturers <a
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$632 billion (largely
through sales by US
companies to the US
military). Meanwhile,
the total UN
peacekeeping <a
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is only $5.6 billion,
and 92% of the
peacekeepers come from
the Global South. The
Global North makes money
on war, while the Global
South sends its soldiers
and policemen to try and
prevent conflicts.</p>
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<p align="left"
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regional peace and
development structures</b>.
To disperse some of the
power from the UNSC,
regional peace and
development structures
such as the African
Union must be
strengthened and their
views given priority. If
there are no permanent
members in the UNSC from
Africa, the Arab world,
or from Latin America,
why should these regions
be held captive by the
veto wielded by the P5?
If the power to settle
disputes were to rest
more in regional
structures, then the
absolute authority of
the UNSC could be
somewhat diluted.</p>
</li>
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Rotella (Italy), <i>Pax
</i>(Peace), 2004.</small></p>
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<p align="left"
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">With
the genocide unrelenting,
another wave of boats filled
with solidarity activists \u2013
the Freedom Flotilla \u2013
attempts to reach Gaza. On
one of the boats is Ayoub
Habraoui, a member of
Morocco\u2019s Workers\u2019
Democratic Way Party who
represents the International
Peoples\u2019 Assembly. He sent
me this message:</p>
<blockquote
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<p align="left"
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">What
is happening in Gaza is
not a conventional war \u2013
it is a slow-motion
genocide unfolding before
the eyes of the world. I
am joining because
deliberate starvation is
being used as a weapon to
break the will of a
defenceless people \u2013
denied medicine, food, and
water, while children die
in their mothers\u2019 arms. I
am joining because
humanity is indivisible.
Whoever accepts a siege
today will accept
injustice anywhere
tomorrow. Silence is
complicity in the crime,
and indifference is a
betrayal of the very
values we claim to uphold.
This flotilla is more than
just boats \u2013 it is a
global cry of conscience
that declares: no to the
siege of entire
populations, no to
starving the innocent, no
to genocide. We may be
stopped, but the very act
of sailing is a
declaration: Gaza is not
alone. We are all
witnesses to the truth \u2013
and voices against slow
death.</p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"
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