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World War II: The Most Important Role Of The United Nations

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Since its creation after WWII, the United Nations, or UN, has served many roles throughout the world. Some of the UN’s traditional roles include maintaining peace, developing friendly relations, promoting justice and cooperation, and seeking solutions to global problems. While all of these roles help to ensure world peace and cooperation of the countries around the world, I believe that the most important role of the UN would be promoting justice and the protection of basic human rights. Since its creation, the UN has been working to provide every human with the basic human rights that should be guaranteed to all. After the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN finally had the legal means to implement this idea throughout the world. This is a necessary role because sometimes governments/countries get caught up in their own problems and forget their main job: to take care of their citizens. For example, the UN helped end Apartheid in South Africa when the government started to discriminate against the majority of their citizens. Without the UN, many individuals’ voices would be lost under the control of their government. In addition, …show more content…

I think this is fair because every country deserves to have the same number of votes as the others. If one country had more votes based on maybe population or economic status, this could cause jealousy among the other countries and would defeat the one role of the UN to develop friendly relations among countries around the world. In addition, with one vote per member, important decisions can be made more efficiently, providing solutions to global problems. Unlike the previous League of Nations, creation after WWI but failed, the UN does not deny member status just out of fear/discrimination. This ensures that every country has equal opportunity and say in the

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