Has the united nations been a failure or a success since it's establishment?

Question

Do you guys have some examples of failures and successes of that the league had since it was made? i have a debate for this for school tomorrow.

Answer 1

Both.

Answer 2

The United Nations has been a complete failure since its conception. Its edicts are almost always ignored. N Korean police action was authorized because Russia did not bother to attend Security Council and the Korean war is still on. No Peace Treaty has ever been signed and UN representatives are still in talks with N Korea trying to get one. Talk about failure.;

Answer 3

just look who they put incharge of economic development and who they have in the Human rights Council By the way we were banned from it if you answer that question ten it is no challenge that it has failed

Answer 4

WW II, Korea, Lebanon 1958,  Vietnam, Lebanon 1982, Somalia, Africa, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and South America. There are so many examples of their failures that is not even funny.

Answer 5

Per its original charter, the aim of the United Nations is to prevent war, to safeguard human rights, to provide a mechanism for international law, and to promote social and economic progress, and improve living standards and fight  diseases.

In many respects, it has done a very good job.  One of the prime examples of the success of the United Nations is their refugee program, under the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).  Countless lives have been saved through the organization's intervention.

Many of the failures in the UN have been associated with international security issues - those examples are legion - Palestine, Kosovo, Rwanda, etc.  A major part of the difficulty in the security arena is that the UN cannot truly enforce its rulings and sanctions - nonmember, and even member nations and organizations need not comply.

Bear in mind, that there is no suitable alternative to the UN - the absence of such a program would no doubt lead to isolationist maneuvering among individual nations and national coalitions.

Although written a while ago, the following book is an excellent resource on the subject:

The United Nations : Successes and Failures, by

I G Edmonds

Answer 6

A great day to ask this question - Zimbabwe has just been elected to head the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Libya used to head the UN Human Rights Commission.

Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is perhaps one of Africa's worst dictatorships, and that's a dubious achievement. His population is being destroyed economically, politically and civilly. Yet the UN elects that nation to head a pretigious commission.

Fundamentally, the UN had failed because its leadership - Kofi Annan was perhaps among the worst - has utterly failed to address any of the major political issue sof our time in good faith. Human rights have been left for other non-governmental organisation and the U.S. and like-minded nations. Neverthless, the UN has been a forum where nations could meet and discuss a very limited range of issues.

The UN has, however, helped address major health crises. That said, it has been essentially useless in combatting AIDS and major third world diseases because the various governments that have these problems make up a majority of the General Assembly and resent interference in their affairs.

While it has done much better than its predecessor (The League of Nations), one would have to say that it has been a failure.

Answer 7

Simple and quick answer. Complete success. It was established to prevent another world war, and we havent had one. Second was to give a forum for countries to complain - it has. If it was successful in solving everything, more people would complain that it was acting like a world government and want its dissolution.

While it needs an overhaul to deal with the realities of the world that have changed since WWII, the UN is a necessary part of international diplomacy.

Answer 8

It has been a success when it comes to events on other continents, but how about when the United States is committing unauthorized invasions of places that are supposed to be its allies, or when Ukranians on a US Navy base are fighting a European Union agency because the "Queen of Cheeze,"  who has a dacha in the US, doesn't want her cheezes analyzed.  Tres embarrassant!  The United States is not supposed to support royalist issues, and when the US (and Japan) pay the most for UN operations no one ever insults their activities

Answer 9

FAILURE...it is the most corrupt body on the planet. Look at where they go to be "peace keepers", it is only places where there is a viable commodity involved. That is why they are ignoring the Sudan problem. The whole organization is corrupt and the 7 members of the security council have effectively made it a political joke, each acting on it own best interests instead of for the world.

Answer 10

I have nothing good to say about the United Nations.  It is a corrupt organization that steals more money than it distributes.  The U.S. puts up almost the entire operating budget of the group yet is constantly belittled and berated.  They've actually had countries like Libya and Cuba on the Human Rights committees and the Security Council is constantly being held up by countries like France, China and Russia.  The U.N. is an organization that needs to be dismantled and thrown on the trash heap of history.

Answer 11

Failure hands down.  Best example, the Iraq war. The UN offered 14 mandates to Saddam Hussein over 8 years, allowing him ample time to conceal, create, etc WMD's which the UN reported he had from the start. Anyway, had the UN had ba**s eough to take action in the beginning, the outcome might have been different. We would not have felt the need to clean up their mess.

We forget that we have seen this before. Remeber Adolf Hitler? The first version of what is now the UN was the League of Nations which was in charge of overseeing compliance by Germany to the Treaty of Versalles. Hitler openly violated again and again the provisions of the treaty and the League of Nations ignored him again and again. This cost the lives of over 12 million people who died at the hands of the n***s.

Answer 12

you have to ask

Answer 13

The United Nations is a futile organization because it is not being respected by countries as it tends to favor the United States which is a major contributor.

Answer 14

United Nation has been an utter failure. It was always under the control of the powerful Nations or the Nations which held the patronage of the powerful Nations. Israel (with the help of USA) has refused to honour more than 110 UN resolutions passed against it.

Iraq is another case, it was attacked without the sanction of the UN. UNO is hijacked by USA long time back.