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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Hanspeter Bigler

Hanspeter Bigler is secretary-general of the Society for Threatened Peoples in Switzerland and Swiss representative of the Committee for a Democratic UN.

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How to democratise the United Nations

The United Nations needs renewed democratic legitimacy that only a parliament elected by citizens worldwide can provide, says Hanspeter Bigler.

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