The UN, says former ambassador Bolton, has over 9,000 mandates. I would like to know what they are, and what the pricetag for each one is.
While looking for a mandate list, which I could not find, not even on Wikipedia, I found this list of current issue categories the UN is working on:
Africa Ageing Agriculture AIDS Atomic Energy
Children Climate Change Culture
Decolonization Demining Development Cooperation Persons with Disabilities Disarmament Drugs & Crime
Education Elections Energy Environment
Family Food
Governance
Health Human Rights Human Settlements Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance Indigenous People Information Communications Technology Intellectual Property International Finance Iraq
Labour International Law Oceans and the Law of the Sea Least Developed Countries
The Millennium UN General Assembly- The Goals -
Question of Palestine Peace & Security Population
Refugees
Science and Technology Social Development Outer Space Statistics Sustainable Development
Terrorism Trade & Development
Volunteerism
Water Women
Youth
I could not find any minimal or ideal funding requirements listed.
What I did find:
Mm, a bottle of frosty MDG
"The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest." That's 8 years, everyone. (we're almost halfway through the first)
These 8 goals are:
1. eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. achieve universal primary education
3. promote gender equality, and empower women
4. reduce child mortality
5. improve maternal health
6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. ensure environmental sustainability
8. develop a global partnership for development
The secretary general says this will take sustained effort until the deadline, and requires development aid double (from x to y).
I don't know what the UN says x and y are, but Bjorn Lomborg quoted 150B/yr as 2-3x the global development aid amount, which would solve 1/2 of "all major problems" in the world, which I suppose is UN ballpark. Why don't we give FAR more than enough, collectively? hep! hep!
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