While globalization has changed the challenges facing the United Nations, in today's integrated world, the UN is needed now more than ever, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today, in Geneva, where he was awarded an honorary degree from the institute at which he studied nearly 40 years ago.
Despite the promises of globalization, about half a billion people in South Asia experienced a decline in their incomes during the '90s, compared to only a small minority of the educated urban population that benefited from the region's economic growth, according to a new United Nations report on development in the area.
Meeting just days after the conclusion of a landmark United Nations conference in Mexico that reached important decisions on fighting poverty, officials from around the world gathered in Geneva today to seek ways of making sure that the benefits of globalization are shared equally in all parts of the planet.
Against a backdrop of heightened concern over the link between international security and economic development, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) today announced plans to host a meeting on combating the inequities caused by globalization.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today encouraged a conference of civil society groups meeting in Brazil to work with, rather than to confront, governments and businesses in finding solutions to the world's problems.
The key challenge for upcoming international policy forums on how to manage globalization is to place development at the centre of their discussions, instead of viewing it as a product of globalization, according to a just released report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Globalization presents women in rural areas with new opportunities as well as additional negative circumstances and limitations, according to a new report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan released today.
A newly released study by the United Nations University (UNU) calls for major alterations in the functioning of the UN, warning that an overhaul is needed "before a crisis induced by globalization forces the changes required."
