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Un guide GUIDE TO THE UNITED NATIONS What is it The United Nations UN helps solve problems that challenge humanity It is a massive web of organisations bodies courts and treaties that was formed in with the aim of preserving peace through international co

GUIDE TO THE UNITED NATIONS What is it The United Nations UN helps solve problems that challenge humanity It is a massive web of organisations bodies courts and treaties that was formed in with the aim of preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security It is not a world government and does not make laws like national governments do But it does provide the means to help resolve international con icts and formulate policies on matters a ?ecting all of us including our human rights If the UN has said something on how a country should ensure a particular children ? s right for instance this is terri ?c advocacy leverage to get that right respected at a national level Today nearly every country on the planet is a UN Member State with there being members When States become members they agree to accept the obligations of the UN Charter which is an international treaty setting out the basic principles of international relations According to the Charter the UN has four purposes one of which you will notice concerns human rights ? to maintain international peace and security ? to develop friendly relations among nations ? to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights ? and to be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations In terms of structure the UN has six main organs Five of them - the General Assembly the Security Council the Economic and Social Council the Trusteeship Council which became obsolete after the end of the decolonisation process which it oversaw and the Secretariat - are all based on UN Headquarters in New York The sixth the International Court of Justice is located at The Hague in the Netherlands There are then more than a ?liated organisations known together as the ??UN system ? which relate to or are managed by the six main organs mentioned above For example the Human Rights Council is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly What does it do The UN ? s main human rights work can mostly be broken down into two main areas - standard setting and enforcement Below is a short summary of some of the work the UN does on human rights You can ?nd out more about what some speci ?c bodies do by reading their dedicated pages Human rights standard setting Through the UN national governments have agreed principles to make the world a safer and healthier place for people to live with dignity respect and equality These principles are enshrined in many international treaties which are agreements that States sign up to that have produced a large body of international law including human rights law The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly in sets out basic rights and freedoms which all humans therefore including children are entitled to Among them are the right to life liberty and nationality to freedom of thought conscience and religion the right to work and