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UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read
- A United Nations report revealed that UN reports are not widely read, indicating inefficiency in the organization.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefed countries about the findings from the UN80 reform taskforce.
- Guterres noted that while the UN produced 1,100 reports last year, many receive fewer than 1,000 downloads.
- Guterres expressed concern that many reports receive fewer than 1,000 downloads, highlighting inefficiency in report distribution.
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Review Finds Hardly Anyone Reads UN Reports Churned Out by the Hundreds
On Friday, August 1st, UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented a report from his UN80 reform initiative, which examined how UN staff carry out the thousands of mandates assigned to them by bodies such as the General Assembly and the Security Council. He highlighted that last year the UN system supported approximately 27,000 meetings across 240 entities and produced 1,100 reports—a 20% increase since 1990. Guterres warned, “The sheer volu…
The United Nations produces so many reports every year that they are hardly read by anyone at the end. An expensive bureaucratic monster, which is obviously more concerned with itself than with real problems. The United Nations has published a report that says that no one reads their reports. Yes, read correctly – the bureaucratic Moloch, which produces tens of thousands of pages of paper every year, has now admitted that most of these documents…
[NHK] UN Secretary-General Guterres has called on member states to cooperate in reducing meetings and reports that contain overlapping content amid pressure to make significant budget cuts.
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