By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Every September world leaders travel to New York to address the start of the ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly ...

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SUMMIT: As if the world wasn’t already drowning in high-level summitry, there’s another one to add to the mix. The two-day “Summit of the Future,” the latest attempt to try to ...

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

Kwame Nkrumah?s insight into the true nature of neo-colonialism was ahead of his time and is still relevant today Kwame ...

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 ...

Discover the rich history of the Alton Blues baseball team, from their formation in 1899 to their 1945 reunion.

This era resonated with a spirit of liberation and progress, paralleling the global movements of that time, such as the establishment of international organizations like the United Nations (1945 ...

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 ...