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| The logo of the United Nations |
Many of us should heard before the organization of United
Nations, we maybe know them from a movie, because their name always appear in
movies especially in those military or disaster movie. However, we may not know
what the mission of United Nations is and why United Nations exist? I hope this
blog can helps you to have better understanding on United Nations, respect and appreciate
their hard work on maintaining a peace and security of the World.
The United Nations is an international organization founded
in 1945. In 1945, countries were in ruins because World War II was just over. At
that time, the world wanted peace and harmony. Therefore 51 countries appointed
their representative to gather in San Francisco to sign a document. The
document was a Charter, creating a new organization, the United Nations. The
United Nations' system is based on five principal organs: the General Assembly,
the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the
Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice. The mission of the United
Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
This is how United Nations established. And now, United Nations made up of 193
Member States, you may find the Member States in the link (http://www.un.org/en/member-states/).
Over this 70 years, the United Nations are doing the most difficult job in the World, the roles and responsible of United Nations are maintaining
International peace and security, promoting sustainable development, protect
human rights, uphold international law, and deliver humanitarian aid.
Maintaining International peace and security
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| Peace and security |
The role of maintaining international peace and security
represents the primary purpose of the United Nations. Because of the importance
of international peace and security, the founders of the United Nations adhere
to and emphasized it in the preface and the Charter of the Organization. They
stated all the possible principles, methods and procedures in the Charter which
are to be followed to achieve this end. This reflects the intentions and
desires of the United Nations’ founders whose seek to establish an
international organization for achieving international peace and security. The
United Nations does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in
conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the conditions to allow peace
to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one
another, to be effective. The United Nations Security Council has the primary
responsibility for international peace and security. The General Assembly and
the Secretary-General play major, important, and complementary roles, along
with other UN offices and bodies.
Promoting sustainable development
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| Climate control |
The United Nations always aims to achieving international
co-operation, the desires to cooperate and work together with many parties to
solve the international problems such as economic, cultural, social, or
humanitarian character and in promoting respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all regardless of race, language, sex or religion. Besides,
United Nations also work hard to emphasize on improving people’s well-being. In
their promoting sustainable development programs, United Nations was included promotes
prosperity and economic opportunity, greater social well-being, protection of
the environment, improving the lives of people everywhere. In recent years, the
Member of United States are working together to fight the climate change. . As climate
change poses a growing challenge to the world’s such as sea-level rise to
melting glaciers, to more extreme weather patterns, thus, the United Nations facilitate
negotiations under the UN Framework Convention for a climate agreement in 2015.
In addition, the United Nations is supporting efforts to assess the climate
science, and provide assistance to countries and communities to reduce
emissions and to build climate resilience.
Protect human rights
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| You have the right to life |
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless
of race, color, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion,
national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Human rights are
the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered entitled: the
right to life, liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equal treatment
before the law, among others. Making the promotion and protection of human
rights also a key role of the United Nations. Since 1948, the human rights was
included in international law, and thus the United Nations protected human
rights through legal resources and on-the-ground activities. The Office of the
High Commissioner has been responds to crises, supports human rights defenders,
and brings human rights closer to people through advocacy, monitoring and
training activities, it contributes to legislative and policy reforms to
increase accountability for human rights violations and advance human rights.
Uphold international
law
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| International Law |
International law is the set of rules generally regarded
and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations. International
law also defines the legal responsibilities of States in their conduct with
each other, and their treatment of individuals within State boundaries. Its covers
a wide range of international concern, such as human rights, disarmament,
international crime, refugees, migration, problems of nationality, the
treatment of prisoners, the use of force, and the conduct of war, among others.
It also regulates the global commons, such as the environment and sustainable
development, international waters, outer space, global communications and world
trade. The development of, and respect for international law has been the important
role of the United Nations. This work is carried out in many ways - by courts,
multilateral by the Security Council, which have authority to approve
peacekeeping missions, impose sanctions, or authorize the use of force when
there is a threat to international peace and security.
Deliver humanitarian
aid
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| Humanitarian affairs |
The United Nations’ main role of humanitarian aid is to
save lives, reduce suffering and respect to human dignity. The Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for coordinating
responses to emergencies such as providing emergency relief to those in need belong
homeless, refugees, victims of natural disasters, wars and famines. The United Nations
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is one of the best organization to
support rapid humanitarian response for refugee whose affected by natural
disasters and armed conflict. They helps to protect refugee and resolve refugee
problems and coordinate on rebuild programs.
List of references:
- United Nations (no date) Available at: http://www.un.org/en/index.html (Accessed: 13 May 2016).
- EMMA, D. (2015) ‘Doing “the Most Difficult Job in the World”’, Harvard International Review, Vol. 37(1), pp. 4–6.
- Stokstad, E. (2015) ‘United Nations. Sustainable goals from U.N. under fire.’, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 347(6223), pp. 702–703.
