1. Multinational Organizations

2. The United Nations

3. Directions
Using the following Power Points fill out the UN Graphic Organizer Worksheet.
Take your time.
Include all the details
I might let you uses this on the quiz ;)

4. The UN’s beginnings
U.S. had refused to join the League of Nations after WWI.
However, with the end of WWII, the American people realized that America was a world power with worldwide interest and responsibilities.
The United Nations officially came into existence on October 24th, 1945.

5. The Aims of the United Nations:
To keep peace throughout the world.
To develop friendly relations between nations.
To work together to help people live better lives, to eliminate poverty, disease and illiteracy in the world, to stop environmental destruction and to encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms.
To be a center for helping nations achieve these aims.

6. The Principles of the United Nations:
All Member States have sovereign equality.
All Member States must obey the Charter.
Countries must try to settle their differences by peaceful means.
Countries must avoid using force or threatening to use force.
The UN may not interfere in the domestic affairs of any country.
Countries should try to assist the United Nations.

7. The UN is built around 6 “principal organs”:
1) the General Assembly
2) the Security Council
3) the Economic and Social Council
4) the Trusteeship Council
5) the International Court of Justice
6) the Secretariat

8. The General Assembly Called, “the town meeting of the World.”
Each of the UN’s members has a seat and a vote in the assembly.
Meets once a year, normally in September.
Makes decisions on important questions, on peace and security, admission of new members and budgetary matters.

9. The Security Council
"The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body. It has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. Five powerful countries sit as permanent members along with ten other member states, elected for two-year terms. Since 1990, the Council has dramatically increased its activity and it now meets in nearly continuous session. It dispatches military operations, imposes economic sanctions, mandates arms inspections, deploys human rights and election monitors and more."
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

10. Functions and powers of the Security Council
Maintain international peace and security.
Determine the existence of threats to peace or acts of aggression and to recommends what actions should be taken;
Calls on Members to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop aggression;
Can take military action against an aggressor
The only time the Security Council has undertaken a military operation against an aggressor came in Korea in 1950.
Recommends the admission of new Members and positions within the U.N.

11. The Security Council 15 Members
5 Permanent members
United States
Britain
France
Russia
China
10 nonpermanent members are chosen by the General Assembly to two-year terms; they cannot be immediately reelected.
Austria
Japan
Uganda
Burkina Faso
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Viet Nam
Costa Rica
Mexico
Croatia
Turkey

12. Other important UN Bodies
Economic and Social Council
Responsible for carrying out the UN’s many economic, cultural, educational, health and related activities.

13. Other important UN Bodies
Trusteeship Council
Sets guidelines for the governments of all UN trust territories and makes rules for their administration.

14. Other important UN Bodies
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
UN’s judicial arm.
Advises the other UN bodies on legal questions arising out of their activities.

15. Other important UN Bodies
Secretariat
Performs routine administrative (management) work of the UN.

16. The Work of the UN Peacekeeping is a primary function of the UN.
The World Food Program provides about one third of the world’s food aid per year.
Health is a major concern of UN agencies.
Environment is also a concern of the UN
Human rights issues

17. The Future of the United Nations
In spite of all of its achievements the success of the UN is usually judged on its ability to keep the peace.
UN has suffered some serious setbacks recently
In 1998, Iraq declared that it would no longer cooperate with UNSCOM, the UN Special Commission charged with ensuring that Iraq was not producing or deploying weapons of mass destruction.
The refusal to let UN arms inspectors continue their work broke an agreement.