UN

UN
Blue territory is controlled by UN members
Formation	24 October 1945
Headquarters	New York
Leader	Secretary-General of the United Nations
Type	•  international •  political •  legal
Subgroups	•  UN Security Council •  UN General Assembly •  United Nations Human Rights Council •  UN Secretariat •  International Court of Justice •  UN Economic and Social Council •  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime •  International Civil Aviation Organization •  FAO •  ICAO •  IFAD •  ILO •  IMO •  ITC •  IPCC •  IAEA •  UNIDO •  ITU •  UNAIDS •  SCSL •  UNCTAD •  UNCITRAL •  UNCDF •  UNCN •  UNDAF •  UNDG •  UNDOF •  UNDP •  UNDPI •  UNEP •  UNESCO •  UNFIP •  UNFPA •  UN-HABITAT •  OHCHR •  UNHCR •  UNHRC •  UNICEF •  UNICRI •  UNIDIR •  UNIN •  UNITAR •  UN-Oceans •  UNODC •  UNOPS •  UNOSAT •  UNRISD •  UNRWA •  UNTAG •  UNU •  UNU-OP •  UNU-CRIS •  UNV •  UNWTO •  UPU •  WFP •  WHO •  WIPO •  WMO
Interest of	Lori Handrahan, Ronda Hauben, Matthew Russell Lee, Specialized agency of the United Nations
Founder of	Agenda 2030, Agenda 21, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Subpage	•UN/Assistant Secretary-General •UN/CTED •UN/Convention on the Law of the Sea •UN/Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force •UN/DOF •UN/Deputy Secretary-General •UN/General Assembly •UN/High Commissioner •UN/Human Rights Council •UN/Institute for Disarmament Research •UN/ODC •UN/Office On Drugs and Crime •UN/Office of Counter-Terrorism •UN/Population Fund •UN/SC •UN/Secretary-General •UN/Special Rapporteur •UN/Under-Secretary-General •UN/Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator •UN/Vetoes for Israel

Official narrative

A forum for peaceful discussion and working out of differences without using force. It was set up after WW2.

Structure

The two main organs of the UN are the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly. The former has a smaller membership - 15 members only, including five permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK & USA). The permanent members have veto powers, and the security council's approval is needed for resolutions involving military force.

 

A Document by UN

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
File:UN-Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict-2010.pdf	report	2010	Afghanistan/2001 Invasion

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
UN agency	autonomous organizations which work with the United Nations
UN/SC	The military arm of the UN. It is able to change rules in the UN Charter, and is able as only UN entity to send or deploy the military of the UN and its permanent members to countries. It hasn't proved to be very consistent and is often in a stalemate because of veto powers and deep lobbying.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza	“UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said after a key Hamas operations center was discovered right beneath his headquarters that he had no idea. That's absurd. There was a very advanced tunnel with electrical cables, which supplied a Hamas server center with power. That came directly from UNRWA's electricity grid. Moreover, a few years ago, UNRWA staff noticed that an entire parking lot above it was starting to subside. So what do you mean, we couldn't have known anything?”	Hillel Neuer	2024
Walter Cronkite	“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace....To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order...We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation....Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law - a democratic federal world government -to deal with world problems.”	Walter Cronkite	19 October 1999
UNRWA	“UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said after a key Hamas operations center was discovered right beneath his headquarters that he had no idea. That's absurd. There was a very advanced tunnel with electrical cables, which supplied a Hamas server center with power. That came directly from UNRWA's electricity grid. Moreover, a few years ago, UNRWA staff noticed that an entire parking lot above it was starting to subside. So what do you mean, we couldn't have known anything?”	Hillel Neuer	2024
Joris Voorhoeve	“Take into account that 2/3ds of UN member states are no democracy, also take into count that quite a number of states are run by criminal organisations. Colonialism did not end, it took a different form.”	University of Leiden Joris Voorhoeve	12 April 2016

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Bernt Carlsson	UN/Assistant Secretary-General	1 July 1987	21 December 1988
Bernt Carlsson	UN/Commissioner for Namibia	1 July 1987	21 December 1988
Andrew Cordier	Undersecretary in Charge of General Assembly and Related Affairs	1946	1961	Facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba
Ban Ki-moon	UN/Secretary-General	1 January 2007	31 December 2016
Nader Mousavizadeh	Political officer	1997	2003	Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Mohamed Chande Othman	Eminent Person	2017
Mohamed Chande Othman	Head of UN Panel of Experts	2015	2017
Francis Sanziri	UN/DOF/Head	22 October 2017	19 April 2019	Suffered a fatal heart attack
David Veness	Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security		2008

 

Known members

191 of the 192 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Afghanistan	"The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors.
Albania	A small country in Southeastern Europe.
Algeria	A nation on the Mediterranean Sea. The largest country in Africa, formerly colonised by France.
Andorra	A micro state in Europe. An enclave between France and Spain.
Angola	South West African state
Antigua and Barbuda	Small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, formerly part of the British Empire.
Argentina	Second biggest country in South America.
Armenia	Small Eurasian nation; formerly part of the USSR
Australia	A large island nation in the southern hemisphere which is pioneering universal surveillance of its citizenry.
Austria	German-speaking republic in Central Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Austria has become increasingly westernised.
Azerbaijan	A former part of the USSR.
Bahrain	Oil rich Arab nation, formerly part of the British Empire.
Bangladesh	8th most populated country in the world. Formerly part of the British Empire.
Barbados	Scenic Caribbean island nation. Formerly part of the British Empire
Belarus	"Europe's last dictatorship" - Formerly part of the USSR. Outspoken opposition to the COVID-19 lockdown agenda.
Belgium	Former European colonial power
Belize	The only Central American country which is a Commonwealth realm.
Benin	French speaking country in West Africa.
Bhutan	Very small country in the Eastern Himalayas. A constitutional monarchy which has Buddhism as the state religion.
Bolivia	Mountainous country in South America, a large producer of cocaine. Formerly part of the Spanish Empire.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	small nation in the Balkans.
Botswana	Country in Southern Africa. Formerly part of the British Empire, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world.
Brazil	Very large and not particularly populous country which has made a priority of biofuels.
Brunei	Small kingdom in South-East-Asia
Bulgaria	The poorest country in the European Union.
Burkina Faso	African country; formely part of the French Empire.
Burundi	Very small African nation, formerly part of the Belgian Empire. Their president died under mysterious circumstances during COVID.
Cambodia	A Buddhist nation in Indochina.
Cameroon	West African state
Canada	If tar sands are counted, Canada possesses the 3rd largest oil reserves of any nation state.
Cape Verde	African island nation. Independence from Portugal in 1975.
Central African Republic	Unstable, poor African country. They speak Sango and French in the CAR.
Chad	Arabic and French speaking desert nation in North Africa. Formerly part of the French Empire, Chad has seen instability in recent years.
Chile	Spanish-speaking MEDC in South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
China	The most populous nation state in the world
Colombia	Colombia is an important state in the trafficking of cocaine to North America.
Comoros	Obscure island nation off the east coast of Africa. A nation formed at a crossroads of different civilisations, The Comoros is noted for its diverse culture.
Costa Rica	An armyless country between Nicaragua and Panama
Croatia	Formerly part of Yugoslavia, Croatia is westernising at a rapid rate, with membership of the European Union and NATO being achieved relatively quickly after independence.
Cuba	The only country in North America under the influence of the USSR during the cold war.
Cyprus	A small, divided, island in the Mediterranean. Greek Cyrpus was aggressively pushing the COVID-19/Vaccine in May 2021.
Czech Republic	Formerly communist, central European nation.
Côte d'Ivoire	The Ivory Coast.
Democratic Republic of the Congo	A large country in central Africa, the majority of the former 'Belgian Congo'.
Denmark	Member of the EU, NATO.
Djibouti	small country in East Africa.
Dominican Republic	Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
East Timor	An island country in Southeast Asia.
Ecuador	Offered asylum to Julian Assange.
Egypt	Strategically important due particularly to the Suez canal.
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Event Planned

Event	Description
"Smart city"	A prison-city with an algorithm as warden

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Serious Questions about the Integrity of the UN Report on Syria	paper	5 October 2013	Subrata Ghoshroy	A detailed and scholarly study of the evidence presented in the UN special report on the use of Chemical weapons in Ghouta, Syria on 21 August 2013 and a similar report by 'Human Rights Watch' based largely on it. It is a damning indictment of the manner in which UN reports on sensitive matters and the entire HRW organisation are effectively suborned to Western geo-political purposes.
Document:The Presence of Evil	blog post	25 July 2024	Craig Murray	Netanyahu’s slanderous attacks on the institutions of international law were applauded to the rafters by America’s political leaders. The whole world was watching, and took note. The Zionist project per se is evil. To steal another people’s land and subject them to long and progressive genocide is about as evil a deed as can be imagined.
Document:Time to Start Paying Attention: The US Just Bombed Russians in Syria	Article	9 February 2018	Darius Shahtahmasebi	It is not clear if Russia has a retaliation of its own in mind, but we would do well to remember that when similar incidents took place last year, Russia indicated that they would begin targeting US jets if they had to. Almost immediately after this stark warning, Australia pulled its planes out of its air missions in Syria.
Document:UN Charter	historical document	26 June 1945	51 member countries
Document:UN Secretary-General invokes Article 99 on Gaza	Article	6 December 2023	Al Jazeera	"Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the UN Security Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared."

 

Documents sourced from UN

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Ahmadinijad UN Statement 2011	statement	9-11 US	22 September 2011	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
File:A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf	report	Assassination	28 May 2010		The UN Special Rapporteur reports on "targeted killings" by states.
File:Company-Occupied territories trading.pdf	Database	Israel Palestine Israeli occupied territories	12 February 2020	UN/Human Rights Council	Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
File:Leaked-UN-Plan-for-Post-Gadhafi-Libya.pdf	memo	Libya	9 August 2011		An internal UN memo on the plan for UN involvement in 'post-conflict' Libya. It was obtained and first published by Innercitypress.com on 29 August 2011. Its authenticity is not verified but its contents indicate that it probably is a genuine UN document.
File:UN HRC Gaza Freedom Flotilla.pdf	report	Israel/Defense Forces 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla	1 October 2010	UN Human Rights Council	The report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance

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