The United Nations
The United Nations was created in hopes of preventing conflict, or to maintain peace throughout the world. They are responsible for establishing many programs with the intentions of minimizing conflict and focusing on areas such as world poverty and hunger, economic and social development, and human rights. The United Nations ensure the protection of rights in many ways, here are a few:
- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights raises concerns with governments, responds to human rights abuses and takes action to prevent violations.
- The UN Secretary-General and the High Commissioner confidentially voice human rights concerns with governments on various human rights situations and issues, including the treatment of prisoners and the commutation of death sentences.
- Under certain UN human rights treaties, individuals can appeal against States for alleged violations of their rights, subject to the fulfillment of certain preconditions, including the exhaustion of all domestic remedies.
- On 15 March 2006, the General Assembly created a Human Rights Council to replace the former UN Commission on Human Rights. The new body, crafted with the aim of improving the effectiveness and raising the status of the United human rights machinery, will report directly to the Assembly. (See box, Human Rights Council.)
The United Nations i believe, is a big waste of money. They talk a lot but never get anything done, and if they did, don’t you think the wars in the middle East would have been stopped by them (just an example) ? They may provide a little bit of assistance to countries in need of emergency stabilization, but even then they have no long term effect. However, it is easy to look the other way as well, seeing as how conflicts now as opposed to about 60 years prior have dropped drastically (inter-state conflicts). I do feel the United Nations could still be doing a better job, it seems as though they just spend a lot of money, and have no credibility for anything really.
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http://www.un.org/geninfo/ir/index.asp?id=140#q1
Have you looked at what they do in countries? There is alot of aid coming from UN all over the world as well as they have mulitple development goals and implement strategies to achieve these goals. However, I do agree that many times they seem to be hancuffed by their own leaders and this leads to lack of action in important time sensitive arenas.
I agree that the United Nations doesn’t seem to get many things done but it’s more about the lack of support they have from other countries than that they just don’t want to do anything about problems in the world. Sometimes without money to put plans into action, those plans never happen.
Great post
hey Great blog yes i also agree with the fact that the united nations don’t get things done…