The document provides an overview of the United Nations, including its formation, objectives, failures, reasons for failures, and successes. It notes that the UN was formed in 1945 with 51 members (now 193) to promote peace, cooperation, security, and human rights. However, it has also faced failures like genocides, crimes, and refugee crises due to issues like terrorism and Security Council politics. Nonetheless, the UN has also achieved successes such as prosecuting war criminals and ending famines.

1. What is
United Nations?
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3. Formation of United Nations
• Before United Nations, League of Nations was
formed.
• League of Nations consisted of 58 nations but
it was shut down because it was influenced by
the interests of the prime nations and even in
its presence World War 2 started.
• So finally United Nations was formed on 24
October,1945.
• At the time of its founding it had 51 members
, now it has 193 members.

4. United Nations Headquarter in New York City , USA
Also its main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna.

5. Objectives of United Nations
• To promote peace in the world.
• Increase co-operation between countries.
• To increase International security.
• To give basic human rights to every human in
the world irrespective of his/her country.
• To have a better healthcare in the world.

6. Failure of the functioning of U.N
We all believe that the U.N is very
effective and important for the world but
we can’t neglect the failures it has faced
due to its ineffectiveness which has
various reasons.
Some of its failures are shown here:

7. Rwandan
Genocide in 1994

8. Rape and child sex abuse
in the Congo

9. Iraq oil for food
programme

10. Srebrenica
Massacre

11. Refugee Crisis

12. Reasons for failures of
U.N
• Terrorism
• Security Council
• Corruption

13. Success of United Nations
We have seen so many failures of U.N
that we think that there is no need of it
but its not true , the world really needs the
U.N much more than we think!
Some of the notable success of U.N is given
here:

14. Prosecutions of Charles Taylor and
Slobodan Milosevic

15. Ending Famine

16. Protecting the Galapagos Islands

17. South Africa, Kazakhstan, and the
other countries who gave up The
Bomb

18. There are a total of seventeen
specialized organizations made by
the United Nations.
Some of them notable for their
work in the world are :

19. World Health Organization
(WHO)