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The United Nations Today: Changes in Policies and Structures—The World Summit and UN Reform

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  • A useful compendium is in the “International Symposium—Prospects for Reform of the United Nations System, 15–17 May 2002”. Italian Society for International Organization, CEDAM, Padua, 1993.

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  • Also “Rethinking International Organizations, Pathology and Promise”, Dennis Dijkzeul and Yves Beigbeder, Berghahn Books, UK, 2003.

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  • See “Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, 1990–2005—Summary”, U.N. Statistics Division. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi-coverfinal.htm, 13 June 2005.

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  • The Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change is entitled: “A more secure world: Our shared responsibility,” United Nations, 2004.

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  1. Yves Beigbeder LLD
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  1. International Association for Humanitarian Medicine, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland

    S. William A. Gunn MD,FRCSC,FRCSI(Hon),DSc(Hon),Drhc

  2. Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters, Palermo, Italy

    Michele Masellis MD

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Beigbeder, Y. (2008). The United Nations Today: Changes in Policies and Structures—The World Summit and UN Reform. In: Gunn, S.W.A., Masellis, M. (eds) Concepts and Practice of Humanitarian Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72264-1_16

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