Photo Gallery

Augusto Lopez-Claros was a speaker at the panel on The Role of Foundational Texts in Anchoring Democratic Projects, hosted by the Young Democrats Gathering at Bois-Seigneur-Issac, Belgium, July 20, 2025, during the conference “Trust as a Pillar of Democracy: Upholding Democratic Values in Europe amidst Global Challenges.”

First row, from left to right: Marie-Laure Salles, Rita French, Yvette Stevens, Andrew Strauss, Amanda Ellis, Patricia Rinaldi, Sofia D'Alte, James Orbinski. Second Row, from left to Right: Joshua Lincoln, Andreas Bummel, Frederic Rammel, John Vlasto, Augusto Lopez-Claros, John Miller.

A working session. From Left to Right: Andreas Bummel, Frederic Rammel, Andrew Strauss, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Marie-Laure Salles, Yvette Stevens, July 7, 2025.

From left to right: former Ambassador of New Zealand to the UN Amanda Ellis; former Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the UN Yvette Stevens; former Ambassador of the United Kingdom for Human Rights, Rita French.

Augusto Lopez-Claros meeting with H. E. Antonio Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. London, July 4, 2025, Brazilian Embassy.

Augusto Lopez-Claros participating in the panel "Mobilizing Private Climate Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies" organized by the World Economic Forum at the 4th UN Conference on Financing for Development, Seville, July 1, 2025.

The Global Governance Forum and the Coalition for A Second UN Charter held several meetings and presentations at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasilia, during the period June 24-26, 2025.

Augusto Lopez-Claros intervened at the panel "A Fairer World is Possible" organized by the Turkish Embassy in Madrid where he outlined some of the main proposals of the Second UN Charter, June 20, 2025.

Augusto Lopez-Claros, as a member of the Steering Committee, participated in a strategy meeting of the Article 109 International Coalition for a New UN Charter in Geneva, Switzerland, during the period June 15-16.

The Global Governance Forum (Augusto Lopez-Claros) and the Coalition for UN Charter Reform (Heba Aly) presenting the Second UN Charter at the French Embassy in Copenhagen, hosted by Ambassador Christophe Parisot. With more than 30 diplomats present, representing 23 countries, including over a dozen ambassadors, May 23, 2025.

The Global Governance Forum participated in a meeting in Stockholm, hosted by the Global Challenges Foundation with its partner organizations, the purpose of which was to share ideas and explore common interests in the pursuit of practical solutions to today´s most pressing global challenges, May 21-22, 2025.

The drafting group during a working meeting in Madrid, April 4-6, 2025.

First Row (sitted), from left to right: Melissa Parke, Heba Aly, Sofia D'Alte. Second Row (standing), from left to right: Jennifer Parlamis, Vesselin Popovski, Patricia Rinaldi, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, John Miller, Daniel Perell, John Vlasto, Alexander Kmentt, Andreas Bummel, Joshua Lincoln, Andrew Strauss, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Tad Daley.

On February 14 2025, Augusto Lopez-Claros made a presentation of A Second United Nations Charter at an interactive session with graduate students at SciencesPo’s PSIA (Paris School of International Affairs) in Paris. The lecture was hosted by Professor Frederic Rammel and his colleagues Mimi Maung-Trentin and Mark Maloney. Some of the students presented their impressions on the Second UN Charter. A similar interactive session took place at The Graduate Institute in Geneva on November 26, 2025.

Augusto Lopez-Claros meeting with Ambassador Raj Kumar Srivastava, Director of the Institute of Foreign Service, Ministry of External Affairs of India, after a presentation of A Second UN Charter. November 19, 2024.

Ambassador Srivastava with Anita Shukla, Joint Secretary, and Amrita Banerjee, Under Secretary, both at the Institute of Foreign Service, Ministry of External Affairs, India, November 19, 2024.

Presentation of A Second UN Charter at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, November 6, 2024. A similar presentation was made at the Belgium Diplomatic Academy in Brussels, November 8, 2024.

Launch of A Second UN Charter on September 19, 2024, in New York, during the United Nations General Assembly session.

Interventions by (from left to right) Maria João Rodrigues, president of FEPS; H. E. Paula Narváez, President of the ECOSOC and Permanent Representative of Chile at the UN; David Passarelli, Director of UNU; H. E Martin Kimani, former Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and Ann Linde, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

The Reviewers group for A Second UN Charter held a meeting in Berlin, in July 2024. In this picture Augusto Lopez-Claros is with Ann Linde, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

The drafting group of A Second UN Charter holding a working meeting in Madrid, in January 2023.

Group photo of the ’drafters’ working meeting. Seated in front, at the center: Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, and Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the UN General Assembly in 2018.

Augusto Lopez-Claros participating at the Global Futures Conference 2023, with Amanda Ellis, Richard Ponzio and Nudhara Yusuf, New York, September 20, 2023.

Augusto Lopez-Claros addressed the students at the Asian Business School, Uttar Pradesh, India, October 30, 2023, on “The Problems of Rising Income Inequality.”

Augusto Lopez-Claros meeting Professor Lee, Chemistry Nobel Laureate and a signatory of the Global Governance Forum's Declaration: A Call for UN Charter Reform. Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 19, 2024.

A presentation of A Second UN Charter to several members of the Lower House of the Japanese Parliament (Diet), Tokyo, May 15, 2023.

Augusto Lopez-Claros meeting with Hans Corell, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat, December 2, 2021, Stockholm.

On the 100th Anniversary of Swedish democracy, Augusto Lopez-Claros addressed members of the Swedish Parliament and civil society and diplomatic representatives in a presentation on the future of democracy, Stockholm, December 1, 2021.

Augusto Lopez-Claros meeting with Fabrizio Hochschild, UN Under-Secretary-General at the UN Headquarters in New York, December 16, 2019.