Question

highlight the achievements of the UN

Answer 1

the major or most imp achievement of UN is world peace

Answer 2

The United Nations Charter first took effect on Oct. 24, 1945 — and, since 1948, that day has been marked as United Nations Day.

As the celebration rolls around once again this weekend, it will surely be used as an occasion to celebrate the U.N. and its values: spreading democracy, promoting peace, combating world hunger and other sweeping noble missions. But when it’s not United Nations Day, the organization often finds itself criticized for both its failures and tendency as an unwieldy organization to not take decisive actions.

So, in order to provide you with some specific success examples to sprinkle into your conversations over the course of the day, here is a list of five specific, mostly-uncontroversial accomplishments that the U.N. has actually achieved in the 70 years of its tenure:

Saving the Pyramids: UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural agency, has a list of World Heritage Sites that it deems culturally significant and will take steps towards preserving or protecting. The area around the Giza pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt is one such site. When construction beganon an eight-lane highway a mile south of the Sphinx and three great pyramids in 1995, the impending change threatened the architectural site and its ancient structures. UNESCO dispatched an expert mission to Egypt to meet with government authorities about diverting the highway, which the officials agreed to do.

Eradicating Smallpox: The World Health Organization, a U.N. agency, led the global effort to eradicate the disease. By 1980, after almost 13 years of an immunization campaign, the WHO declared smallpox extinct. TIME reported on its campaign in 1977: