Mending a global giant: How to fix a 70-year-old United Nations

True to form, Canada’s former ambassador to the UN speaks frankly about making the organization fairer and more efficient, its greatest successes and its most worrying failures.

There is an urgent need for global rules around state conduct in cyberspace. But, building new norms is a slow and complicated process — is the UN up for the task?

The international refugee system, under the leadership of the UNHCR, is in crisis. It’s time for either a drastic restructuring or alternative where refugees are part of policymaking.

If the UN wants a powerful, international advocate at its helm, like Kofi Annan and Dag Hammarskjöld once were, it needs to take ensure the Security Council does not have full control over the selection process

Contributing personnel and technology can improve Canada’s standing with the U.S. and the international community, all the while helping to modernize peacekeeping operations 

While the United Nations supports ‘the right to just and favourable remuneration’ and fights inequality, it leads the pack in reinforcing a system that rewards elites.