A medida que se profundizan las amenazas a la ONU y al multilateralismo, es urgente, desafiar la primacía de las IBW
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El proceso de reforma de la ONU80 y el establecimiento de una ‘Junta de la Paz’ aumentan las amenazas de erosión del papel de la ONU y elevan la importancia de los debates sobre el papel de las IBW.
El 18 de septiembre de 2025, el Secretario General de la ONU, António Guterres, presentó un informe sobre la iniciativa ONU80 titulado Shifting Paradigms: United to Deliver. Si bien el proceso de reforma de la ONU se presenta como un esfuerzo para hacer frente a los desafíos de nuestro tiempo, el proceso y el informe están sesgados hacia los ahorros de costos y los aumentos de eficiencia (véase el Observador de Otoño de 2025), centrándose ampliamente en la duplicación de mandatos y en un sistema simplificado.
On 15 October, the Group of 77 and China reacted to the report stressing that, “the UN80 process must strengthen, not dilute, multilateralism”, and that, “every mandate…should be treated equally, regardless of its funding source….” The stakes for the development needs of low- and middle-income countries was evident in the United States’s reaction, which ignored the UN’s human rights and development pillars, focusing instead on the need for the UN to “get back to basics” and to “maintain [sic] international peace and security while respecting the national sovereignty of Member States.”
Given the disappointing results of the Fourth UN Financing for Development Conference in Seville in July 2025 (see Observer Summer 2025, Spring 2025), particularly in addressing the governance shortcomings of the World Bank and IMF and their role within the wider international financial architecture, the question of “mandate duplication”, and the broader role of the UN remain pivotal. The establishment of the Board of Peace by the United States, which is seen by some as a direct threat to the UN (see Observer Spring 2026), adds further pressure on efforts to safeguard the UN and multilateralism more broadly.
