On this day in history, June 26, 1945, the United Nations was formally established with the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco, California. Article 111 of the charter indicated, "The present ...

The concept for the UN was started while WWII still raged on. No one wanted a repeat of the waste and disarray of another global conflict. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov ...

In this fascinating inquiry, Muschik explores the role of the United Nations in the great post–World War II transition from a world of empires to a postcolonial system of nation-states. The UN was ...

In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. This resulting treaty, ...

The name United Nations originated with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 when he described the countries fighting against the Axis in World War II. FDR’s “Four Freedoms” also made their way ...

1945 – 1955 – The United Nations Secretariat and the Economic and Social Council were the principal United Nations bodies concerned with disability issues, focused on promoting the rights of persons ...

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As the United Nations turns 80, the organisation is coming under pressure to reform in order to stay relevant. But can the UN ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source If ever there was a time for an insightful, sharply argued book on the role of the United Nations, now -- ...

The year 1945 left its mark on the 20th century. The liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the Pacific War, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan: these 12 months changed the world forever. After ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/musc20024.3 Writing in the wake of World War II, Jean de la Roche, a midlevel French civil servant with the United Nations (UN ...