Is the United Nations still relevant?

Mark Malloch Brown was Deputy Secretary General of the UN under Kofi Annan

The UN has suspended Libya from its human rights body, but some critics say that the organisation is only capable of symbolic gestures.

So how can it become more influential?

World Update's Dan Damon has been speaking to Mark Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary General and author of The Unfinished Global Revolution.

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First broadcast 4 March 2011