What is United Nations?Made by : Anmol Sawhney

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Source: The Guardian

Formation of United Nations• Before United Nations, League of Nations was

formed.• League of Nations consisted of 58 nations but

it was shut down because it was influenced by the interests of the prime nations and even in its presence World War 2 started.

• So finally United Nations was formed on 24 October,1945.

• At the time of its founding it had 51 members , now it has 193 members.

United Nations Headquarter in New York City , USA

Also its main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna.

Objectives of United Nations

• To promote peace in the world.• Increase co-operation between countries.• To increase International security.• To give basic human rights to every human in

the world irrespective of his/her country.• To have a better healthcare in the world.

Failure of the functioning of U.N

We all believe that the U.N is very effective and important for the world but we can’t neglect the failures it has faced due to its ineffectiveness which has various reasons.Some of its failures are shown here:

Rwandan Genocide in 1994

Rape and child sex abuse in the Congo

Iraq oil for food programme

Srebrenica Massacre

Refugee Crisis

Reasons for failures of U.N

• Terrorism• Security Council• Corruption

Success of United Nations

We have seen so many failures of U.Nthat we think that there is no need of it but its not true , the world really needs the U.N much more than we think!Some of the notable success of U.N is given here:

Prosecutions of Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic

Ending Famine

Protecting the Galapagos Islands

South Africa, Kazakhstan, and the other countries who gave up The Bomb

There are a total of seventeen specialized organizations made by

the United Nations.Some of them notable for their

work in the world are :

World Health Organization(WHO)