ABSTRACT
First ever international conference convened specifically to consider ways by which the United Nations organization could come to represent not just the governments of ‘we the peoples of the United Nations’, but also we the peoples of this our planet. The programme includes three approaches for instituting an official UN non-governmental body: an assembly directly representative of the peoples of the United Nations; an assembly representative of the legislatures of the member-states and therefore indirectly representative of the peoples; and an assembly representative of non-governmental organizations. A fourth approach to UN reform in the Conference programme consists of proposals on more democratic governmental representation and voting powers. A campaign for democratic reform of the UN could cover all these several approaches by making immediate demands for: a UN study on both a peoples’ and a parliamentary assembly and inclusion in member-states’ General Assembly delegations of at least one parliamentary or other non-governmental representative.
