ABSTRACT

The UN displays its lack of democracy first and foremost by excluding from representation, from policy and decisionmaking roles, the majority population of every nation in the world. After the First World War, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom sent a proposal to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919 suggesting ways to avoid war. Proposals have been offered to provide a more just balance of power among nations with differing land-mass and economic resources. Therefore, in addition to reasons based on social justice and democracy, an equal role for women in any structure said to represent the Peoples’ Voice in the UN, would be a fundamental necessity for purely practical considerations: women’s strategic role in solving our global problems. In 1991, several world congresses on the environment and on other global issues are being convened by international women’s organizations.