The United Nations Organization (UNO) officially came into existence in October 1945 after the Second World War. It was formed to replace the League of Nations‚ which had proved incapable of restraining aggressive dictators like Hitler and Mussolini. In setting up the UNO‚ the great powers tried to eliminate some of the weaknesses‚ which had handicapped the league. The UN charter was drawn up in San Francisco in 1945‚ and was based on proposals made at an earlier meeting between the USSR USA China
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What Makes A Nation‚ A Nation? No nation can exist forever. So what makes a nation‚ a nation? Milan Kundera’s essay‚ “A Nation Which Cannot Take Itself for Granted” examines this significant question. Published in June 1967‚ Kundera‚ a reformed Czechoslovakian communist writer‚ explores the sphere of culture and optimism of the Czech nation during the period of de-Stalinization in Eastern Europe. “The existence of the Czech nation has never been a matter to be taken for granted and
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has impacted the lives of millions of people‚ including children‚ that once lived in their developing home country to be forced out to be able to escape natural disasters‚ prosecution‚ to escape from war‚ etc. The UNHCR has participated actively during the aftermath of the Second World War‚ during the Hungarian Revolution and so on. The UNHCR was created to protect these innocent lives and with the contribution from Angelina Jolie holding
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The League of Nations and the United Nations By Charles Townshend Last updated 2009-11-05 The imposition of a peaceful world order was a key objective for the League of Nations‚ established in the aftermath of World War One. How can its successor‚ the United Nations‚ react to the challenges of the 21st century? Charles Townshend assesses its chances. * The birth of the League ideal * The growth of a system * Death and transfiguration? * A new international age? * The
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As it was in the past‚ the main function of the UN today is to maintain peace and security for all of its member states. Though the UN does not maintain its own military‚ it does have peacekeeping forces which are supplied by its member states. On approval of the UN Security Council‚ these peacekeepers are often sent to regions where armed conflict has recently ended to discourage combatants from resuming fighting. In 1988‚ the peacekeeping force won a Nobel Peace Prize for its actions. In addition
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For maritime law in general‚ see Admiralty law. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Signed Location December 10‚ 1982 Montego Bay‚ Jamaica Effective Condition November 16‚ 1994[1] 60 ratifications Parties 160[2] The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)‚ also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty‚ is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III)‚ which
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bring peace throughout the nations‚ something that would ensure that they would never have reason to fight again‚ at least not nearly as bad as the Great War had been. President Woodrow Wilson was a strong supporter of a peace between all continents‚ even constructing a 14 Point Plan that would focus on bringing peace to the world. As a result‚ when the League of Nations came into being‚ he fully supported the Treaty of Versailles‚ which would not only induct the United States into the League‚ but
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replaced by the League of Nations some 63 years back in October 24‚1945 in San Francisco‚ California‚ shortly after World War -II. No doubt the tragedy‚ bloodshed‚ massacre‚ hunger and nuclear atrocities by the USA gave alarming feelings to the nations to freeing the world from the possibility of wars in future. However‚ its successes and failures in achieving this objective are still debatable. The UNO as stated above is a renewed precursor body of the League of Nations. So before reviewing the
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The United Nations is a worldwide organization created after WWII whose main purposes are stated in the UN Charter. It is commonly perceived that the UN was created after WWII with one purpose‚ to prevent a future world war‚ and although this is somewhat true the purposes of the UN are most appropriately stated in Chapter I‚ Article I of the UN Charter. First‚ “to maintain international peace and security‚ and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats
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renamed to United Nations Stabilization Mission of the Congo (MONUSCO)‚ after the approval of Security Council resolution S/RES/1925. In contrast to MONUC‚ the peacekeeping enforcement of MONUSCO had a military component (Bellamy &Williams‚ 2010). MONUSCO is the largest peacekeeping operations in the world‚ with a total of 21‚485 uniformed personnel and 4539 civilian staff of which includes international‚ nationals and volunteers. It costs 3.8 billion dollars every
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