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Main Points:
The United Nations is an international system that shapes the world as we know it. The United Nations is one of the first to help coordinated responses to help aid natural responses. One aspect of the work by the UN is to help during times of need and distress such as natural disasters, and the creation of clean water in places around the world. The United Nations started during the end of WWII, while they looked for a workshop for promoting peace. Today it is a global effort by an assembly of nations that could seek consensus on a common action. They have about a 192 nations in the General Assembly, and 15 members in the security council to promote areas of peace. They provide aid to return the lives of child soldiers, to defuse land mines for miners. They also have the "General Millennium Goals." It is to end poverty, reduce mortality rate, improve maternal health, establish a global development partnership, ensure environmental sustainability, combat disease and hunger, and create an universal primary education system. All of these tally to 8 goals that the UN wants to have completed by the end of the Millennium. It seems like a long time away, but they are enormous goals and might pretty much take up at least that much time if not more. The UN participates in Democratic elections, but just as a means of support. Not only do they do so, but they also support the lives and needs of a common person.


 * Origins:**
 * The** United Nations was coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 after the US State Department in 1939 developed an idea of multiple nation aegis.In 1942, 26 states joined under the Declaration of the United Nations.

The need for an international organization to replace the League of Nations was first stated officially on Oct. 30, 1943, in the Moscow Declaration, issued by China, Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR

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The **Permanent Court of Arbitration** was created during the 1899 International Peace Conference to establish peace in the world, and settle crises in a peaceful manner. It codified the rule for warefare. It was the first International Conference that promoted peace. It was followed by the League of Nations.

The United Nations Headquarters became located in Eastern United States. John D. Rockefeller gave them $8.5 million to buy a tract of land near East River, NYC.

The principal buildings there, the Secretariat, the General Assembly, and the Conference Building, were completed in 1952. The Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Library was dedicated in 1961.

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