Fulfilling the UN75 Declaration’s Promise - An Expert Series’ Synthesis of

As the next step, the Declaration calls for “the Secretary-General to report back before the end of the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly with recommendations to advance our common agenda and to respond to current and future challenges.” Convened from February through May 2021 by a consortium of civil society organizations,1 the Fulfilling the UN75 Declaration’s Promise Expert Roundtab. [...] In this regard, several contributors to the roundtable series lent their support, for example, to the ongoing Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform, the Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly, and the ongoing reviews of the Economic and Social Council and the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. [...] Roundtable Series Calendar, Session Co-Sponsors, and Headline Speaker The insights and recommendations generated by the Fulfilling the UN75 Declaration’s Promise Expert Roundtable Series will be presented at the upcoming Global Town Hall and the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the UN System in June 2021, and the Global People’s Forum in October 2021 and Global Policy Dialogue on Global G. [...] ● There should be a global campaign to better understand and address the hesitations of the one-hundred or so countries which do not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ and have not joined the ICC, with a goal of getting at least 50 percent of the world’s nations onboard. [...] ● Growing mistrust and its origins, as well as the accumulated socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, call for the establishment of a global platform at the UN that cultivates conversations around the best ways to deal with the social crisis issues the world faces.