Overview#

United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order.

A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.

United Nations headquarters is in Manhattan, New York City, and experiences extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna.

United Nations is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

United Nations objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organisation in the world.

The UN system is based on Six principal organs:

• United Nations General Assembly
• United Nations Security Council
• United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• United Nations International Court of Justice (World Court)
• United Nations Secretariat.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Countering the Financing of Terrorism
• Good ID
• Group of 7
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
• ISO 3166-1 numeric
• International Civil Aviation Organization
• International Organization for Standardization
• International Telecommunication Union
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• UN
• United Nations Economic and Social Council
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• World Bank Group

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• [#1] - United_Nations - based on information obtained 2017-05-06-