2 marks [2×4=8]. what are the achievements of uno ?
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Explanation:
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States.
The main organs of the UN are
the General Assembly,
the Security Council,
the Economic and Social Council,
the Trusteeship Council,
the International Court of Justice,
and the UN Secretariat.
All the 6 were established in 1945 when the UN was founded.
UN Contribution to World
Peace and Security
Maintaining Peace and Security: By sending peacekeeping and observer missions to the world’s trouble spots over the past six decades, the United Nations has been able to restore calm, allowing many countries to recover from conflict.
Preventing Nuclear Proliferation: For over the five decades, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has served as the world’s nuclear inspector. IAEA experts work to verify that safeguarded nuclear material is used only for peaceful purposes. To date, the Agency has safeguards agreements with more than 180 States.
Supporting Disarmament: UN treaties are the legal backbone of disarmament efforts:
the Chemical Weapons Convention-1997 has been ratified by 190 States,
the Mine-Ban Convention-1997 by 162,
and the Arms Trade Treaty-2014 by 69.
At the local level, UN peacekeepers often work to implement disarmament agreements between warring parties.
Preventing genocide: The United Nations brought about the first-ever treaty to combat genocide—acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
The 1948 Genocide Convention has been ratified by 146 States, which commits to prevent and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime. The UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as UN-supported courts in Cambodia, have put would-be genocide perpetrators on notice that such crimes would no longer be tolerated.