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    • Function of COADA    ▾
  • African Diaspora    ▾
    • History
    • Migration
    • Social and political
    • Populations and estimated distribution
    • Autosomal genetic studies and the African contribution to Brazil
  • Africa    ▾
    • African History    ▾
      • Etymology    ▾
        • Early civilizations
        • Ninth to eighteenth centuries
        • Colonialism and the “Scramble for Africa”
        • NEW IMPERIALISM
        • Independence struggles
      • Geology and geography    ▾
        • Climate change
        • Demographics
      • African plate
      • Politics
      • Economy
      • Languages
      • Culture
      • Territories and regions
    • African Union    ▾
      • The objectives of the AU
      • History of the African Union
      • Geography of the African Union
      • AFRICAN UNION POLITICS
      • African union Membership
      • Role of African Union
      • Emblem of the African Union
      • Regional conflicts and peacekeeping
      • References
    • AFRICAN-COLOMBIANS    ▾
      • Demographics
      • Cultural contribution
      • Current issues faced by Afro-Colombians
      • Socio-economic inequalities
      • Effects of the war on Afro-Colombians
      • Health disparities in Colombia
    • Music and the African diaspora
    • AFRICAN DIASPORA SUMMIT
  • ECOWAS
  • Caribbean
    • Caribbean-Regional-Civil-Society-Organizations
    • Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI)
    • Caribbean Network for Urban and Land Management (CNULM)
    • Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN)
    • Eastern Caribbean Trading Agriculture and Development Organisation (ECTAD Caribbean)
    • Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC)
    • Foundation for Development Planning, Inc (FDPI)
    • Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC)
    • The Trust for Sustainable Livelihoods (Sustrust)
  • The Americas    ▾
    • Organization of American States
      • Goals and purpose
      • Organizational structure
      • Funding
      • General Assembly
      • Membership and adhesions
      • Canada and the OAS
      • Permanent observers
      • Official languages
    • North America
    • Central America and South America
    • Afro-Latin Americans    ▾
      • List of Afro-Latinos
      • AFRO-CARIBBEAN    ▾
        • Caribbean Community
        • Membership
        • Organizational structure
        • Celebration
        • Statistics
        • Relationship to other supranational Caribbean organizations
        • PROJECTS
  • Inter-Governmental    ▾
    • THE COADA    ▾
      • BACKGROUND FOR THE UNITY GATHERING
      • THE AGENDA AND THE DECISIONS
      • The Pan African Congresses
      • Bureaus
      • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
      • Methods of Work
    • PROGRAMME OF ACTION    ▾
      • POLITICAL COOPERATION
      • ECONOMIC COOPERATION
      • SOCIAL COOPERATION
      • IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP
      • LEGACY PROJECTS
    • African Union
      • Constitutive Act of the African Union
    • THE UN
    • ACLADA and New Future Foundation
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  • Europe     ▾
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      • Principal organs of the United Nations
      • General Assembly
      • Security Council
      • UN Secretariat
    • International Court of Justice
    • Economic and Social Council
    • Specialized agencies
    • Membership
    • Objectives
    • Human rights
    • Economic development
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UN

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. ]It is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.

The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City, with its other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague.

The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars, succeeding the ineffective League of Nations. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. Pursuant to the Charter, the organization’s objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; with the addition of South Sudan in 2011, membership is now 193, representing almost all of the world’s sovereign states.

The organization’s mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies. Its missions have consisted primarily of unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.

UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization beginning in the 1960s. Since then, 80 former colonies have gained independence, including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council.[7] By the 1970s, the UN’s budget for economic and social development programmes far outstripped its spending on peacekeeping. After the end of the Cold War, the UN shifted and expanded its field operations, undertaking a wide variety of complex tasks.

The UN has six principal organs: the General Assembly; the Security Council; the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); the Trusteeship Council; the International Court of Justice; and the UN Secretariat. The UN System includes a multitude of specialized agencies, such as the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF. Additionally, non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with ECOSOC and other agencies to participate in the UN’s work.

The UN’s chief administrative officer is the Secretary-General, currently Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres, who began his five year-term on 1 January 2017. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

The UN, its officers, and its agencies have won many Nobel Peace Prizes, though other evaluations of its effectiveness have been mixed. Some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called it ineffective, biased, or corrupt.

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