The United Nations is basically group of people who are trying to keep world peace.

This organization tries to keep the cooperation between the international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights all over the world.

The UN has peacekeeping forces in more than a dozen countries for example India, Pakistan and Cyprus.

What is the United Nations

The UN was first founded in 1945 after WW11 to replace The League of Nations

The League of Nations is basically the same thing as the United Nations, to stop war between countries, but it had a different name.

The League of Nations never worked out, it failed and so after WW11 it became a new organization called the UN.

There are now 192 members of the United Nations.

Canada joined the UN in 1945

How did the United Nations start

One of the things the United Nations does is help the refugees.

The UN defines refuges as someone who is displaced or kicked out of their own country, or out of their own homes in there own country.

The UNHCR, which stands for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, creates these refugee camps for people who have no where else to go.

How do they help people

The UN also created the program called Unicef.

Unicef started in December 11, 1946. It provided emergency food and

healthcare to children in countries that were destroyed in WW11.

Originally Unicef helped kids who were affected after WW11, today they help any kid in need.

In 2006 the Unicef raised around 3 billion dollars.

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