The Secretary-General
Born in Lisbon in 1949, this world leader is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Who is Antonio Guterres?
This UN committee deals with nuclear disarmament, terrorism, and peacekeeping.
What is Peace and Security / Global Security?
A country that participates in the United Nations.
What is a Member State?
The signing of this document in San Francisco in 1945 created the United Nations.
What is the United Nations Charter?
In September of 2020, the United Nations celebrated this major milestone.
He was the previous Secretary-General serving from 2007-2016.
Who is Ban Ki-Moon?
The United Nations provides this to 128 million people in 80 countries.
What is food assistance?
This position is the Chief Administrative Officer of the United Nations.
What is the Secretary-General?
The United Nations headquarters are located here.
What is New York City?
These UN Goals were created to replace the Millenium Development Goals.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Before becoming Secretary-General, Guterres served in this position.
What is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?
The UN's provision of this to 45% of the world's children saves an estimated 3 million lives annually.
What are vaccines?
These are the major organs of the United Nations (name at least 3).
What are the Secretariat, General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council?
The UNHCR received this global award in 1954 for its work providing aid to European refugees in the post-war years.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This is the main deliberative body of the UN which includes all Member States.
What is the General Assembly?
Secretary Guterres is fluent in these four languages.
What are Portugues, English, French, and Spanish?
In order to prevent conflict, the UN assists around 50 countries a year with this.
What are elections?
The number of UN Member States.
What is 193?
This organization was replaced by the United Nations after "failing" to prevent World War II.
What is the League of Nations?
When no Member States request a formal vote on a resolution, it is referred to as this.
What is consensus?
Secretary Guterres took office on this date.
What is January 1, 2017?
Aging, Disarmament, Decolonization, Ending Poverty, and Climate Change are examples of the United Nations' focus known as this.
What are Global Issues?
The Member States of the General Assembly meet during these months for their regular session.
What is September through December?
This country became the UN's newest Member State in 2011.
What is South Sudan?
These organizations work for the common good and partner with the UN, but are not part of any government.
What are NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)?