Concerning Two International Conferences, Two Different Yet Complementary Momentums for Progress Along the Analytical and Propositive Path Towards the In-depth Reform of our International Institutions

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ABSTRACT

Democratization of the international institutions is a high priority within the reform process. The international institutions should act in accordance with the different interests and needs of the citizens of the world, and this necessarily involves a fairer redistribution of power between the countries of the

This substantive part of the text is essentially the result of the two international conferences organized in the framework of the World Campaign:

• the ‘Conference on Reform of the United Nations and other International Institutions’, held in Barcelona on 23 and 24 September 2004 in the context of the Universal Forum of Cultures – Barcelona 2004

• the ‘International Conference on the Reform of International Institutions – Dialogues between different levels of governance and civil-society actors’, held at the ILO headquarters in Geneva on 20 and 21 November 2006.