On this day 80 years ago, delegates from 49 countries arrived in San Francisco to begin drafting the United Nations Charter. At the time, President Harry S. Truman and leaders of the other founding ...

United Nations Day, on 24 October, marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories ...

The United Nations Isn't Perfect ... Truman and leaders of the other founding states had great hope that the U.N.’s creation would secure the peace following the devastation of World War ...

He enumerated his war aims in his famous Fourteen Points speech, with the last point calling for the creation ... The United States never joined the League of Nations ...

ALMOST 80 years after the creation of the United Nations, the Summit of the Future this month represents a timely effort to revitalise UN-based multilateralism to address the shared global ...