United Nations Day is celebrated every year on 24th October to honor the anniversary of the formation of the Charter very nearly 75 years back.
Celebrating United Nations Day allows reaffirming the promise to the standards of the United Nations. In each part of the world, the United Nations is a living testament to expectation. It lives in the hearts and brains of each resident to end violence and promote resilience, increase development and assure equality, protect human rights, and alleviate poverty.
25 Interesting Facts about United Nations (UN)
- The name “United Nations” proposed by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942 during Second World War, to his close friend, Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister of United Kingdom, when delegates of 26 countries promised their Governments to keep battling together against the Axis Powers. It is said that Churchill was in Washington D.C. visiting and was having a shower in the bath when FDR was wheeled in and proposed this name. The two of them thought the name seemed well and good in wake of the organization than “Alliances”.
- The United Nations authoritatively appeared on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been sanctioned by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and by a larger part of different signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October every year.
- World War II finished in September 1945. The circumstance of the establishing of the United Nations in October 1945 is a hidden reference to one of the UN’s main purposes – achieving peace. In its logo, the peace symbols, two olive branches are superimposed over the adapted representation of the world.
- The first elected president who managed the first session of the United Nations General Assembly was Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. He was the foreign minister of Belgium and held office for one session of the General Assembly on January 16, 1946.
- The first time the United Nations Day was first praised was on October 24, 1948. Likewise, the United Nations prescribed the day to be a public holiday in 1971. Member countries observe the day to review the enormous role, monstrous work, and extraordinary accomplishments of the United Nations alongside its various organizations in the regions of refugee settlement, health and welfare promotion, disease eradication, stopping famine and promoting human rights.
- The UN General Assembly elects one president and 21 vice-presidents. The positions are held for one year. The UN Presidents is the person who manages the General Assembly sessions. The sessions start in September every year. Since 1971, the secretaries-general are elected for five-year terms and can be elected for second terms as per the circumspection of the member country delegates.
- The UN Charter involves 8,778 words. The second draft of the EU Ecolabel starter report for Sanitary Products (including toilet paper) has more than five times as many (44,065) words.
- India, to this date, holds the record for delivering the longest speech at United Nations Assembly in 1957. V.K. Krishna Menon delivered the energetic speech on India’s remain on Kashmir, the debated domain between India and Pakistan.
- Kofi Annan, who was the Secretary-General at the time in 2001, was the only SG to get the Nobel Peace Prize in equivalent extent with the United Nations organization.
- Indonesia is the only member state of the United Nations that pulled back its participation from the UN however later rejoined after a year.
- The building and the land in New York City where the UN headquarters in New York, USA, is international territory and doesn’t meet all of New York City’s building and fire safety codes.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was given the funds to buy the land in New York City where the United Nations building was constructed. Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier planned the structure.
- The UN additionally has its own Post Office and postage stamps to send mails. Even though they are used all the more regularly for collectibles, the U.N. stamps are as yet used for mailing letters over the world and can be found from UN stamps premises namely Vienna, Geneva, and New York.
- The logo of the United Nations was at first a design for a lapel pin. Its designer was Donal McLaughlin, a worker of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the forerunner of the Central Investigation Agency (CIA).
- At the point when it initially began, the UN has 51 member nations. Today 193 nations involve the United Nations.
- Today, the UN being the greatest peacekeeping organization of the world, it is liable for:
- Providing food to 90 million individuals across 75 nations
- Assisting 34 million displaced people
- Helping 140 countries to battle environmental change
- Vaccinating 58% of the world’s population
- Maintaining peace with more than 120,000 peacekeepers in 4 mainlands and doing the greatest peacekeeping activity in the world.
- Assisting around 50 nations each year in directing elections.
- The most current individual from the United Nations in South Sudan joined the UN organization on July 14, 2011, five days after it became independent, along these lines taking the count of member states related to the UN up to 193.
- The UN united nations in 2015 to launch a plan to end poverty, diminish disparities, and secure the planet by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals give a common blueprint to nations to arrive at a world of dignity for all by 2030.
- António Guterres of Portugal is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Ban Ki-moon of South Korea. His term started on January 1, 2017.
- Annually, the staff members of the UN wear their national costumes to celebrate their special day.
- The UN presidency pivots each year among member countries situated in Western Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.
- The order of the United Nations is to promote and keep up human rights and international peace. The international organization keeps on doing activities worldwide to give humanitarian support, prevent clashes, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping.
- The United Nations works in pretty much all aspects of the world and attempts to battle environmental change with 140 nations. The organization has 80 distinct declarations and treaties for human rights protection.
- Three countries are not members of the UN: Kosovo (not perceived by enough UN members), Taiwan (the place was taken by China in 1971), and Vatican City (religious reasons).
- The United Nations helps the work of interpreters and translators. It uses six languages officially – English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese.
