The political mandate of the Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN) is based on the aims laid down in its statutes and on a declaration of principles adopted at the founding assembly.
KDUN wants to facilitate a cosmopolitan orientation of society, an improvement of international relations, the establishment of global democracy and global rule of law. We champion the preservation of the ecological foundations of life on earth, a sustainable and self-determined development policy and global social justice.
According to the declaration of principles a reformed and strengthened world organization is necessary to implement these goals. It has to be aspired “to create world institutions vested with legal, political and executive authority with which problems may be approached which can only be coped with adequately on the global level.”
An indispensable precondition for this is, from KDUN’s point of view, a far-reaching democratization of the United Nations and of Global Governance: “It is the single citizen himself who eventually is the legitimate source and addressee of a global legal authority”, the declaration says.
In the frame of its broad mandate KDUN has taken the strategic decision to focus its operational activities and research on the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations.
