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United Nations

United Nations. Purpose. Maintain international peace and security Develop friendly relations among nations Cooperate in solving: Economic Social Cultural Humanitarian problems Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms. Structure. General Assembly Security Council

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United Nations

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  1. UnitedNations

  2. Purpose • Maintain international peace and security • Develop friendly relations among nations • Cooperate in solving: • Economic • Social • Cultural • Humanitarian problems • Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms

  3. Structure • General Assembly • Security Council • Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) • Trusteeship Council • International Court of Justice • Secretariat

  4. Reforming the United Nations What kind of UN does the world need for the twenty-first century?

  5. Streamlined UN • World gov’t not necessary, feasible or desirable • Mistrust in gov’t in all forms • What happened to national sovereignty • International orgs are not gov’t but servants of gov’t • No accountability and no power

  6. World Government • The need for world gov’t is growing • Different interest groups and gov’t look at the world body differently • Global forces have weakened the traditional authority of sovereign nation-states. • UN needs a serious overhaul to prepare it for the years ahead

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