The United Nations (UN) is the most representative international organisation around the globe, with 193 member states since ...

Every September world leaders travel to New York to address the start of the annual United Nations General Assembly ...

The permanent members of the UN Security Council have repeatedly used their power of veto to block resolutions relating to ...

In June 1945, shortly after the end of the Second World War, 51 countries signed the charter establishing the United Nations (UN), which came to existence in October 1945, after half of those ...

Some background. Formed in the aftermath of World War II (1945) by the major Allied powers, the UN now has 193 members. They all must agree and sign onto the foundational agreement known as the ...

Essentially, nations hold the keys to "what it is that they will allow the [UN] to do and what resources – financial and ...

The Summit of the Future gives the UN a chance to reassess, possibly paving the way for reforms to be more representative and ...

Rediscovering the history of African Modernism and its impact on architecture and nation-building across the continent.

The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for ...

The legal basis of self-determination Paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations (1945) provides that "to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the ...

This article inaugurates a new series titled Rediscovering Modernism in Africa, aiming to explore the architectural legacy of ...

Virtually all countries agree that nearly eight decades after the United Nations was established in ... has not changed from its 1945 configuration: 10 non-permanent members from all regions ...