United Nations Day is an annual commemorative day to reflect on the day the United Nations (UN) was born, October 24, 1945.

The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The United Nations can take action ...

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 ...

F ounded in 1945, the United Nations (UN) remains an international organization of nearly 200 countries in the world that ...

This Office of War Information film documents the founding United Nations conference of April to June 1945 in which the U.N. Charter was created, debated, and signed by all 50 participating nations.

The United Nations (UN) is an international (intergovernmental) organization founded to promote international co-operation in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and ...

EXPLAINER: What Is the United Nations? In 1945, not long after the end of World War II, representatives of countries from around the world came together to create the United Nations, hoping it ...

They are elected by the United Nations General Assembly for a two year term. France is a permanent member of the Security Council. What does that mean? France was one of the UN’s founding members in ...

The United Nations is 75. So are we celebrating? It was born on 24 October 1945, out of the ashes of World War Two. Just 51 countries were there at the start, and many had only recently stopped ...

The United Nations was set up in 1945 after World War Two. It currently consists of 193 member states, including the UK. It was designed to stop wars between countries and provide a meeting place ...