United Nations questions?

Question

1. What does the UN do to promote peace?

2. What does the UN do for development?

3. What does the UN do for human rights, justice, and international law?

4. Who works at the UN?

5. How does the UN work?

6. Name and Describe the Principal Organs of the UN:

7. How many countries are in the UN?

8. What are the two newest ones?

9. Why are the UN headquarters located in NYC?

10.What is UNICEF?

11. What are UNICEF's goals?

12. What is th UNDP?

13. What are the UNDP's goals?

Answer 1

1.  The UN promots peace through developing cooperation and normalizing relations between states by providing a forum for states to peacefully resolve disputes and come to resolution.

2. The UN provides development through the UNDP, giving monetary and functional assistance.  They also help by promoting the Millenium Development goals.

3. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights helps to shed light on recent human rights abuses and mobilizes member states to act upon it in a peaceful way.  They also work in concert with other organizations to monitor human rights abuses and ensure that nations abide by interational laws.

4.  Everyone works at the UN.  There are literaly dozens of fields that you can work in at places all around the world.  You can find out more in their employment section.

5.  The UN is a complex organization made up of several different organs, each with its own distinct purpose.  The UN works by developing international law and norms to provide practices that member states can abide by that lead to international peace and security and generally promote the best result for all people.

6.  General Assembly- Main body of the UN, provides center stage for a variety of resolutions on a multitude of subjects.

     Security Council- A 15 member council made with 5 permanent members that vote on security issues and help to promote stability.

    

ECOSOC- Economic and Social Council helps to promote economic  and social well-being among the populus of member states.  They also promote human rights.

    

Trusteeship- In setting up an International Trusteeship System, the Charter established the Trusteeship Council as one of the main organs of the United Nations and assigned to it the task of supervising the administration of Trust Territories placed under the Trusteeship System. Major goals of the System were to promote the advancement of the inhabitants of Trust Territories and their progressive development towards self-government or independence. TheTrusteeship Council is made up of the five permanent members of the Security Council --China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States.

    

Secretariat- The Secretariat -- an international staff working in duty stations around the world -- carries out the diverse day-to-day work of the Organization. It services the other principal organs of the United Nations and administers the programmes and policies laid down by them. At its head is the Secretary-General, who is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council for a five- year, renewable term.

    

ICJ- The International Court of Justice is an international judicial branch where states can bring grievances against one another.  It acts much like an arbitrator to resolve disputes before they escalate.

    

7.  There are currently 192 full members to the United Nations.

8.  Serbia and Montenegro

9.  The decision to locate the United Nations near New York City was made in London by the General Assembly at its first session on 14 February 1946, after offers and suggestions for permanent sites had been received from many parts of the world. On 10 December 1945, the Congress of the United States had unanimously resolved to invite the United Nations to establish its permanent home in that country.

Following selection of the United States, a special United Nations site committee looked over possible locations during the latter half of 1946 in such places as Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco. While consideration had been given in the first place to areas north of New York City, crowded Manhattan had not been seriously studied. But a last-minute offer of $8.5 million for the purchase of the present site, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was accepted by a large majority of the General Assembly on 14 December 1946. New York City completed the site parcel by additional gifts of property.

The site chosen by the United Nations was a run-down area of slaughterhouses, light industry and a railroad barge landing. Trucks rumbled up and down First Avenue on one side, and automobiles sped along the East River Drive -- since renamed for Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- skirting the waterfront.

10.  UNICEF is an organization based on the United Nations that promotes the political and  social welfare of children in a variety of areas including development, education, HIV/AIDS, and child protection.

11.  The UNICEF goals are embedded within the Millenium Development Goals.  Please see answer to question 2.

12.  UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

13. The UNDP goals are embedded within the Millenium Development Goals.  Please see answer to question 2.

Answer 2

they do nothing but bash the U.S. We should pull out of the UN

Answer 3

the U.N. is a worthless organization that instead of actually solving problems like darfur and evil dictators they focus on demonizing the U.S.A. and Israel. The U.N. caters to radical muslims, (i mean, muslims in general, they are all radical.)

Answer 4

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