UN Basics
The year the United Nations was founded.
What is 1945?
The year Sweden joined the United Nations.
What is 1946?
The organ responsible for maintaining international peace and security.
What is the Security Council?
The UN’s goals for sustainable development are often called this.
What is Agenda 2030?
The document adopted in 1948 that outlines fundamental human rights.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The city where the UN headquarters is located.
What is New York?
The Swedish diplomat who served as UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961.
Who is Dag Hammarskjöld?
This is where each membering country meets to discuss issues and make decisions.
What is the General Assembly?
The number of global goals in Agenda 2030.
What is 17?
She led the work on drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The organization that the UN replaced after World War II.
What is the League of Nations?
The city where the UN University for Peace has a Swedish partner center.
What is Uppsala?
The UN body responsible for international law, based in The Hague.
What is the International Court of Justice (ICJ)?
The goal that focuses on ending poverty.
What is Goal 1?
The number of articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is 30?
The number of countries that were members when the UN was founded.
What is 51?
The Swedish government agency that works with the UN’s development goals.
What is Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)?
An economic group that works for global development and poverty reduction.
What is ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council)?
The annual UN conference focused on climate issues is called this.
What is COP (Conference of the Parties)?
This UN organization focuses specifically on children’s rights.
What is UNICEF?
Both of these men were horrified by the suffering and loss caused by World War II.
Who are Franklin D. Roservelt and Winston Churchill?
The Swede who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her work within the UN.
Who is Alva Myrdal?
The secretariat headed by the UN Secretary-General.
What is the UN Secretariat?
The UN agency responsible for environmental issues.
What is UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)?
The convention prohibiting torture and inhuman treatment was adopted in this year.
What is 1984?