Polity: International Organizations

Introduction

The United Nations Organization or simply UNO/UN is regarded as the most important international organization in today’s world.
International organizations help with matters of war and peace as well as help countries create better living conditions for us all.

An international organization can help to produce information and ideas about how to cooperate each other experience overall growth.
An international organization can also provide mechanisms, rules, and a bureaucracy, to help members have more confidence that the costs will be shared properly and to benefit governments.
In 1945, the UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations.
The UN’s perspective is to bring countries together to improve the prospects of social and economic development all over the world.

In the UN Security Council, there are five permanent members and ten non-permanent members.
The five permanent members are −
- The United States,
- Russia,
- The United Kingdom,
- France, and
- China.
All these five members have the veto power.
The non-permanent members serve for only two years at a time and give way to newly elected members.
The non-permanent members are elected in a manner so that they represent all continents of the world.
In the UN General Assembly, all members have one vote each.
The Secretary-General is the head of the UN.

The major functions of the UN are −
- Creation of a Peacebuilding Commission.
- Acceptance of the responsibility to the international community in case of failures of national governments to protect their own citizens from atrocities.
- Establishment of a Human Rights Council (operational since 19 June 2006).
- Condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, etc.