Role of the United Nations

1. Peace keeping

2. Social and economic programs

3. Contemporary social conditions

• The United Nations was created to prevent war and to fight against hunger, disease, and ignorance. 

• How successful has the United Nations been in achieving its goals?

Suggested Documents: The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

The United Nations

• United Nations Documents Mount Holyoke

• United Nations Documents University of Minnesota

• Cold War Primary Sources recommended site of NY State Standards

• United Nations Charter, 1945

• Map UN Security Council

Human Rights: Universal Ideals or a Western Impositions?

• The Laws of War  The Hague Conventions, Geneva Conventions, and Pacific Protocol.

• International Human Rights Instruments Texts of all major treaties, agreements, etc. since 1945, in English. Many also in French and Spanish.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 

• The Helsinki Accords, 1975 

• Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 199? 

• Female Genital Mutilation  

• Nelson Mandela: Address on Human Rights, 1991 

• Elie Wiesel: Dedication of Holocaust Museum, 1993