With many achievements now in its past, the United Nations is looking to the future, to new achievements. The history of the United Nations is still being written.

By 1944, many nations agreed that an international organization dedicated to maintaining peace and security was necessary. The next step was defining the structure of this new organization.

The origin of the Charter of the United Nations can be traced back to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by which Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, …

Delegates of fifty nations met in San Francisco, California, USA, between 25 April and 26 June 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization.

Jun 25, 2025 · Behind the signing of the Charter of the United Nations is the story of mankind's age-old attempts to take common action so that peace and security may be achieved.

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From 1948 there have been wars and destruction, forcing millions of Palestinians into exile, and engaging the United Nations in a continuing search for a solution to a problem which came to ...

In 2025, the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary, celebrating eight decades of promoting peace, human rights, social progress, and sustainable development worldwide.

When the United Nations was founded in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, Palestine was a territory administered by the United Kingdom under a Mandate received in 1922 from the …

Now, more than 75-years later, the United Nations continues to work to solve the global issues that individual nations cannot address alone. These collections document the founding of the …