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Title: United Nations Past, Present and Future


1
United Nations Past, Present and Future?
  • Barbara Thompson

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BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE U.N.
  • Establishment after WW II
  • Goals of the UN What does it hope to
    accomplish?
  • Organization What does it do, anyway?
  • Problems in the world the UN is addressing
  • Look to the future

3
History
  • The League of Nations, started after WWI to
    maintain peace in the world, is a failure
  • The 5 winners of WWII
  • get together to form
  • another peace-keeping
  • organization

4
51original member nations ratify the UN charter
in 1945
5
Goals of the UN
  • Stop war! Give peace a chance!
  • Eliminate poverty, disease, illiteracy in all
    countries.
  • Stop wrecking the environment!
  • Everyone is entitled to basic human rights.
  • Lets talk it out, not fight it out!

6
Organization Who does what, and what do they do?
  • General Assembly
  • Security Council
  • Court of Justice
  • Secretary General

7
Problems the UN is addressing today
  • Disease
  • War
  • Refugees from war
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Pollution
  • Migration

8
Members Today
  • There are 188 members today
    from throughout the world.
  • Requirements to join are to abide by the UN
    charter and to try to solve problems peacefully.

9
Where the UN has been involved in the world
  • Peace Keeping Forces in Kosovo, East Timor,
    Cyprus (since 1964), Congo
  • Nuclear weapons inspection in Iraq
  • Helping starving African nations
  • Anywhere there is a threat to the greater world
    order.

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The future of the United Nations
  • Maintaining worldwide peace will always be an
    issue, but who will the peacekeeping forces be?
  • Funding is always an issue.
  • Who determines what are human rights, anyway?
  • Should the developed nations of the world be
    responsible for the care of the undeveloped and
    developing nations of the world?

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Leadership is Critical for survival of the UN
  • Developed nations must support the initiatives of
    the UN
  • Individuals from all over
  • the world must put forth
  • their best efforts for peace.
  • Will you?
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