A Call for Action on the UN Financial Crisis
Initiators:
James A. Paul, Executive Director, Global Policy ForumWilliam Pace, Executive Director, World Federalist Movement
Johannah Bernstein, UN Representative, Earth Action
Signers:
Patrick Baudouin, President, FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights)
Edith Ballantyne, President, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Erskine Childers, Author and former Senior Advisor to the UN Director-General for Development
elmira Nazombe, Director, Office for World Community, National Council of Churches (USA)
Eberhard Brecht, Member, Bundestag; Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs; Chair, Committee on the UN & International Organizations
Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of Capetown,
David Lange, Member of Parliament, New Zealand; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Anne Walker, Executive Director, International Women's Tribune Center
Klaus Huefner, Honorary President, World Federation of United Nations Associations; Professor, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Edith Loane, President, World Federation of Methodist Women
Roberto Bissio, Executive Director, Instituto del Tercer Mundo
Robert Harris, President, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO)
John Buehrens, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Chee Yoke Ling, Asia Pacific Peoples' Environment Network
Poul Hartling, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees; former Prime Minister of Denmark
Hanne Christensen, Programme Coordinator, Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues
Gordon Klopf, President, DPI/NGO Executive Committee
Francisco Soberon, Director General, Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
Afaf Mahfouz, Vice-President, CONGO; UN Representative, Arab Lawyers Union
Preminder Jain, Vice-President, DPI/NGO Executive Committee; UN Representative, International Mahavir Jain Mission
Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus, Notre Dame University; President, Board of Overseers, Harvard University; Director, U.S. Institute for Peace
Colin Archer, Secretary-General, International Peace Bureau
Francesco Rossolillo, President, Union of European Federalists
Fred van Leeuwen, Secretary-General, Education International
Rainer Lingscheid, Director, UN Liaison Office, World Council of Churches
Peter Low, Clerk, New Zealand Quakers
Magdi Ibrahim, Program Coordinator, ENDA Maghreb
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Asia Indigenous Women's Organization
Geoffrey Grenville-Wood, Attorney; former President, UNA of Canada
Bella Abzug, Co-Chair, Women's Environment & Development Organization
Kjeld Akjaer, Chairman, United Nations Association-Denmark
Marie-Christine Aulas, President, Panos Institute, Paris
Mient Jan Faber, Director, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly
Maikel Kiwuram, General Secretary, Pacific Indigenous Youth Forum
Cora Weiss, International Representative, Peace Action
Erfried Adam, Director, Development Policy Program, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Clifton Curtis, Political Advisor, Greenpeace International
Magda Aelvoet, Member, European Parliament
Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner Broadcasting (CNN)
Jakob von Uexkull, Chairman, Right Livelihood Award Foundation
Mia Adjali, Director, United Methodist Office for the UN
Serge Wourgaft, World Veterans Federation
Shazia Rafi, Director, Democracy & Development, Parliamentarians for Global Action
Pedro Dalcero, Senior Researcher, IBASE
Awa Ouedraogo, Secretary General, Women's NGO Network of Burkina Faso
Robert Muller, Chancellor, University for Peace; Vice-President, World Federalist Movement
Chandra Muzaffar, President, Just World Trust
Alice Slater, Executive Director, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR)
Geoffrey Atkinson, National Solicitor, National and Aboriginal & Islanders Legal Services Secretariat
Marianne Andersson, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Michael Renner, Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute
Etienne De Jonge, Executive Director, Pax Christi International
Janet Bloomfield, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Virginia Leary, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Buffalo School of Law
Michael McCoy, Director, Citizens' Network for Sustainable Development
Paul Aarts, Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law & Practice, Princeton University
Hans Singer, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen, UN Representative, National Council for International Visitors
Peter Weiss, Chair of the Board, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Maria-Elena Hurtado, Campaigns Director, Consumers International
Peter Eigen, Chairman, Transparency International
Betty Bumpers, President, Peace Links
Craig Murphy, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College & Co-Editor, Global Governance
Dalmer Hoskins, Secretary-General, International Social Security Association
Mehreen Samee, Research Coordinator, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Islamabad)
James Otley, Bishop, Anglican Observer at the United Nations
Jonathan Mann, Professor & Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University
Cecile Goldet, former Member of the French Parliament; longtime President, United Nations Association of Frence
Bruce Kent, Director, Forum for UN Renewal; Vice-President, Pax Christi-UK
Jens Martens, Member of the Board, World Economy, Ecology & Development Association (WEED)
Aaron Tovish, Director, Peace & Security, Parliamentarians for Global Action
Lennart Lindgren, Chairman, Radda Barnen (Save the Children-Sweden)
Diane Sherwood, Director, Global Commission to Fund the UN
Manfred Kulessa, Joint Conference, Church and Development (Bonn)
Clarence Dias, President, International Center for Law in Development
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Roberto Savio, Secretary General, Inter Press Service
Christian Sterzing, Member of Parliament, Germany
Dawud Assad, President, Council of Mosques of USA
Chung Ok Lee, Head Minister, Won Buddhism
Patricia Mische, President, Global Education Associates
Michael Irwin, Vice-Chairman, United Nations Association-UK; former UN Medical Director
Elke Schmidt-Ranke, Member, German UNICEF Committee; International Council of Women
Robert Johansen, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Krok Institute of International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University
Verna Uthman, Office of Church & Society, United Church of Christ
Jan Loenn, Secretary-General, International Student & Youth Movement for the UN
John Forbes, Director, Coalition for a Strong UN
Susanne Paul, President, Global Action on Aging
Daniel Durand, National Secretary, Mouvement de la Paix
Hermod Lannung, Attorney, Copenhagen; member of Danish delegration to the UN General Assembly, 1946-1970; awarded UN Peace Medal in 1986
Malcolm Harper, Director, United Nations Association-UK
John Washburn, United Nations Association, New York
Renate Wilke-Launer, Editor-in-Chief, Der Ueberblick
Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjold Professor of Law, Rutgers University; Co-Director, World Order Models Project
David Cortright, President, Fourth Freedom Forum
Rene Wadlow, Editor, Transnational Perspectives
Carina Hagg, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Lena Klevanas, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Ethel Howley, School Sisters of Notre Dame
Clovis Maksoud, Director, Center for the Study of the Global South, American University
Joel Kreiger, Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Deborah Moldow, World Peace Prayer Society
Stephen Marks, Director, United Nations Studies Program, Columbia University (New York City)
Phyllis Bennis, UN Correspondent, Pacifica Radio
Frances Farenthold, Attorney, Houston
Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Women's International Peace Initiatives
Harry Lerner, Co-Founder, Conference for a More Democratic UN (CAMDUN)
Katie Dewes, New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies
Don Kraus, Director, Partners for Global Change, World Federalist Association
Stanley Scheinbaum, Attorney, Los Angeles
Sue Nichols, International Association for Religious Freedom
Roberto Castaldi, Secretary-General, Gioventu' Federalista Europea
Beverlee Bruce, Chair of the Board, Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children
Sylvan Barnet, UN Representative, Rotary International
Margaret Crane, Executive Director, Economic & Social Rights Advocacy Network (ESHRAN)
Mario Tasquier, Jeunesse Europeenne Federaliste
Deborah Winter, Professor of Psychology, Whitman College
Mary Toumayan, UN Representative, Armenian International Women's Association
Tariq Banuri, Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Islamabad)
S. Chestnutt, Executive Director, YWCA of Papua New Guinea
Alexander Graf York, former German Ambassador to the UN
Jonathan Dean, Advisor on International Security Issues, Federation of American Scientists
Emilia Iacobucci, Alternate Office Technology Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization
Ulrich Duelchrow, Professor of Theology and Board Member, Kairos Europa
Douglas Holdstock, Member, Executive Committee, Medical Action for Global Security
Meyhnad Desai, Professor, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics
Adam Curle, Professor, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University
Arlette Laurent, former Deputy Head, European Community Delegation to the UN
Juha Rekola, Chairman, Maailman Sivu ry (Finnish Association for Development Journalism)
John McAuley, Assistant to the Secretary-General, World Conference on Religion & Peace
Michael Wessells, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
David Menkes, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago (New Zealand)
Linda Petrucelli, United Church Board for World Ministries
Wendy Lambourne, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
George Farebrother, World Court Project-UK
Erich Mathias, Joint Ministry in Africa, Disciples of Christ/United Church of Christ
Pauline van den Tempel, University of Amsterdam
Robin Pistorius, University of Amsterdam
Nancy Finneran, Loretto Community
Jerome Frank, MD; author
Joseph Makaje, Director, Citizen Social Care Center (Kenya)
Keith Hindell, Member, Executive Committee, United Nations Association-UK
Jean Krasno, Associate Director, UN Studies, Yale University
Monique Prindezis, Secretary-General, World Association for the School as an Instrument of Peace
Wolfgang Edelstein, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Helen Romero, Asia-Pacific Credit Cooperative Society
Harry Cohen, President, Medical Association for Prevention of War-Australia
Robert Smylie, Director, Presbyterian UN Office
Alice Tepper Marlin, Director, Council on Economic Priorities
Heather Silverberg, Shaler Adams Foundation
Michael Prosser, Kern Professor of Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology
Daniele Archibugi, Researcher, Italian National Research Council
Charlotte Bunch, Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
Berit Lofstedt, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Edwin Sutherland, Brig. General, US Army (ret.)
Elisabeth Borgese, Professor, Dalhousie University; Founder, International Ocean Institute; Founder, Pacem In Maribus Conferences; Recipient of UN Environmental Prize
Laura Orlando, Executive Director, ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems
Marek Hagmajer, former Secretary-General, World Federation of United Nations Associations
Schuyler Rhodes, Pastor, Washington Square Methodist Church
Renate Bloem, UN Representative, World Federation of Methodist Women
Margaret Houlihan, Psychologist, Counseling Center, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Anna Rehin, Coordinator, Forum for UN Renewal-UK
Richard Hudson, Executive Director, Center for War/Peace Studies
Alan Dowty, Professor, Notre Dame University
Ward Morehouse, President, Council of International and Public Affairs
Joseph Eger, Conductor, Symphony for UN
Daniel Christie, Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University
Thomas Lannin, Professor of English, Winthrop University
Lucy Webster, Program Coordinator, Global Education Associates
Barbara Frame, Librarian, Knox College (New Zealand)
Lenore Newman, Economists Allied for Arms Reducation
Claire Greensfelder, Women's Network, Plutonium Free Future
Dorothy M. Paul, Executive Director, United Nations Association-USA, Iowa Division
Brenda Belokrinicev, University of Alberta
Joan Meierotto, Member, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Liz Scott, Baltimore Housing Roundtable
Craig Vivas, Exercise Physiology, American College of Sports Medicine
Isagani Serrano, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
Marilyn Ashley, Campaign for the Earth Greg Bischak, NCECD
Richard Ponzio, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Pat Aller, International Union for Land Value Tax
Arati Vasan, Women, Law & Development International
Esty Dinur, Feminist Voices
Michel Beurret, De Bilt, Netherlands
Muriel Llinares, Ottawa University
Anne Yedowitz, UN Representative, soroptimist International
Martha Griffin, Member, United Nations Association-USA
Rod Morris, President, Center for Global Citizens
Larry Gell, Director-General, International Agency for Economic Development
Leonard Rubin, UN Representative, Communications Coordinating
Committee
Vince Comisky, UN Representative, Pax Christi International
Joseph Moerman, Cannon, Founder, IYC
Ellen Mouravieff-Apostal, UN Representative, International Federation of Social Workers; President, NGO Committee on UNICEF
Leandro Desponi, UN Human Rights Expert
Bruno Rohazzotti, International Movement to Aid the Fourth World
Helene Sackstein, Secretary General, International Abolitionist Federation
Leila Siegel, International Council of Jewish Women
Pamela Bailhie, Brahma Kiwaris World Spiritual University
Nicole Piaget, UN Representative, International Federation of Business & Professional Women
The list on this page contains 200 names. As of early April, more than 600 people had signed. Please click here for a list of more signatories
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