Important Dates
This was the year that the U.N. was created.
What is 1945?
This Article grants rights and dignity to every person, regardless of where they live.
What is Article 1?
This is the main body of the UN. All 193 member states are represented.
What is the General Assembly?
The UN successfully eradicated this fatal disease.
What is smallpox?
The UN has been criticized for not better enforcing its agreements with regards to this type of "change".
What is climate change?
This was the year that the UN wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is 1948?
This Article grants persecuted groups the right to flee their home country and seek asylum and safety elsewhere.
What is Article 14?
This is the council that takes primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.
What is the Security Council?
In 1950, Ralph Bunche won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating what conflict on behalf of the UN?
What was the Arab-Israeli conflict?
The UN has been criticized for failing to prevent the genocide/massacre of Muslim men and boys in this region during the Bosnian War.
What is Srebrenica?
This was the year that the UN adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
What is 1959?
This Article bans slavery.
What is Article 4?
This main body of the UN carries out the day-to-day work of the UN.
What is the Secretariat?
This armistice agreement was signed on June 27, 1950 and was heavily brokered by the United Nations.
What was the Korean Armistice Agreement?
The 2022 invasion of this nation is considered a failure of the United Nations Security Council. This is in part due to Russia's ability, as a member of the Security Council, to veto any action.
What is Ukraine?
This was the year that the UN's flag was created.
What was 1947?
This Article grants everyone the right to a fair and public trial.
What is Article 10?
What fund, under the watch of the General Assembly, offers monetary, healthcare, education, and other supports to children in need around the world?
What is UNICEF?
The UN was instrumental in securing this nation's independence from South Africa in 1990.
What is Namibia?
The UN has received criticism for failing to meaningfully intervene in the genocide and conflict that has raged in this African nation since 2003.
What is Darfur?
This was the year that the UN declared smallpox as 'eradicated'.
What was 1980?
This Article grants people the right to practice their religion.
What is Article 18?
The council, under the watch of the General Assembly, that is responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights.
What is the Human Rights Council?
The UN was instrumental in ending the civil war in this African nation. Diamonds played a major role in the conflict.
What is Sierra Leone?
The UN has received criticism for failing to end the 1994 genocide in this African nation.
What is Rwanda?