United Nations Past, Present and Future

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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

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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

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51original member nations ratify the UN charter
in 1945
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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!

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Organization Who does what, and what do they do?

• General Assembly
• Security Council
• Court of Justice
• Secretary General

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Problems the UN is addressing today

• Disease
• War
• Refugees from war
• Drug Trafficking
• Pollution
• Migration

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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.

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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?