Challenges to the United Nations: Building a Safer World Book

	The United Nations System: A diagram
	Glossary
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	Charter of the United Nations	12
	The United Nations System	14
1	The UN's neglected brief - 'The advancement of all peoples'?	26
2	The IMF and World Bank - managing the planet's money	51
3	World trade - free for whom, fair for whom?	64
4	Human rights - fundamental freedoms for all	82
5	UN humanitarian machinery - the need for good and just practice	113
6	Renewing the quest for disarmament - Arms control North and South	135
7	Blue Helmets - For what? Under whom?	152
8	The people's organisations and the UN - NGOs in international civil society	176
9	Public participation in the UN - And the Philippine experience	188
10	A UN for all our children - a giant undertaking	200
	Note on contributors	206
	Further reading	207
	Index	209