Leading the list is the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. For more information see the June 1999 issue of Discerning the Times Digest. Although not stated, to follow through with this declaration will require a huge increase in the UN budget. While some of it can be implemented immediately, to be fully effective it will require new authority granted by a change in the UN Charter. This is a huge undertaking that can only be accomplished with an enormous UN budget and direct control over the nations or a mechanism to force nations to do this.
Most poverty is created by corrupt governments or corrupt international control of trading.
Very little is caused by lack of resources. Even then, Japan has shown that small nations can find a niche if the government encourages free markets. The fact that UN control will enhance, rather than reduce corruption will aggravate the current poverty, rather than reduce or eliminate it. Once this new earth religion is accepted by the UN, a new treaty called the Covenant on the Environment and Development will be introduced for ratification by the nations, enshrining in law the pantheistically-based ideas of sustainable development. The heads of state will also agree to sign and implement the various treaties that extend UN authority into our homes and pocket books.