Functions of the United NationsThe United Nations is an international body that was formed in 1945 after World War II. The United Nations was formed to replace the League of Nations. Its primary objectives includes; stopping wars between countries and to providing a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.The United Nations contains 192 member states. - (This includes nearly every recognised sovereign state in the world.)The United Nations System is separated into five different bodies. These are the General Assemble, The Security Council, The Economic and Social Council, Secretariat and the International Court of Justice. - ( ...view middle of the document...
Over 8,700 staff from all around the world work there. They include economists, translators, secretaries, computer experts, security guards, librarians, lawyers, writers and journalists. The current secretary of the United Nations is Mr Ban Ki-Moon.Economic and Social CouncilThe UN's founders believed that reducing the amount of Poverty in the world would, help create world peace. The Economic and Social Council was set up to co-ordinate all UN efforts to improve the standards of living of the world's poor. The UN works to try to bring full employment and create conditions of Economic and Social progress and development. As much as 70% of the work of the UN system is devoted to accomplishing this task.Trusteeship CouncilThe Trusteeship council has not been in use since 1994. It was created to look after eleven territories over which there were international control because of no government was in existence and for which members of the UN had assumed responsibility. The Trusteeship had to ensure that governments responsible for their administration helped those territories to prepare to gov...