The Secretariat is the Bureaucracy of the United Nations. Currently, there are about 30,000 employees Worldwide. Out of the 30,000 employess, 35% work at the headquarters in New York, Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi. To create an analogy to the American Government. This would be like having a very condensed government. Instead of being widespread and having courts all over the place along with smaller governments, the United Nations has large fixtures which make the Secretariat very hard to contact. In reforming the Secretariat, some of the reforms could make the United Nations more transparent, more accountable, and more efficient. Some have even said that including direct election of the Secretary-General by the people (representatives of nations) would be an acceptable reform.
Other reforms that could do the United Nations some good would be to create more councils similar to the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was voted in in March of 2006. A council like this could specialize in a certain area of world peacekeeping and would allow for the United Nations to be more efficient. I believe that the United Nations, and most other governments in the world, could be more efficient. If it calls for the United Nations to give up their ideals of Democracy, then they must do so. The United Nations likes to call itself a Democracy, when really a Democracy would have either a Direct Election of the leader. The United Nations is not a World Government, but a forum for nations to come and resolve issues. If more councils need to be created, or the title of Democracy taken away, then the United Nations must do so.
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