United Nations

The Secretariat does the administrative work for the United Nations. Along with these purposes, the United Nations also

established six major organizations to carry out its responsibilities.

Each organization carried out different tasks, yet they worked collectively

together under the United Nations organization. The Economic and Social Council studies economic, social, cultural and

health problems in the world and makes recommendations to specific countries or to the

Security Council. Finally the

Trusteeship Council is concerned with human rights, and keeps an eye on the welfare of

people within developing nations. He is currently being tried for

crimes against humanity before the International Court of Justice, I presume.

With these guidelines set, there needed to be proof that this organization wouldn’t

flounder as did the League of Nations. Another

example is the work of the International Court of Justice, which is still working today on

the trial of the former Yugoslavian President, Milosevic. This was mainly the job of the Security Council, made up of the

Big Five countries with permanent Security Council membership, and six other countries

elected for two-year terms. First of all, something was needed to

simply prevent war. San

Francisco, a charter for the United Nations was produced. Even though it has no enforcing power, it does have authority to give legal

advice. Even though the purposes

were vaguely proposed initially, they became clearly stated in four points: (1) to

maintain world peace, (2) to promote justice, (3) to increase the world’s general welfare,

and (4) to establish human rights. The International Court of Justice was created to settle legal

problems.