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The World Health OrganisationThe UN Structure
The WHO has managed to reduce malaria transmission by using insecticides, drug therapy and environmental engineering.
Smallpox killed over 2m people but was successfully eradicated in 1980. NGOs and humanitarian organisations have worked
with WHO to improve lives of people living with tropical diseases like river blindness. The WHO made hepatitis C medication
more affordable.
The The WHO
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decides casessince.
WW2 in 1945. Representatives of 50 countries of international law between countries and issues
The WHO has been criticised for failing to provide timely and accurate information about covid-19 as it gave ‘confusing’ and
gathered at the United Nations Conference in advisory opinions on legal questions referred by the
‘contradictory’ decisions during the pandemic.
California. They proceeded to draft and sign UN. The secretariat helps carry out decisions made by
United Nations theDevelopment
UN charter toAgencies
create the United Nations to different organs of the UN. It also helps organise
prevent another world war. The UN has conferences, translate speeches and to keep the public
Many organisations have taken responsibility for
received 3 Nobel peace prizes and has had informed on any work the United Nations is doing.
promoting growth, stability and development
conferences on women, nuclear weapons,of
all regions sustainably. The sustainable
torture, disease and climate change. TheUNs mostprogress has been affected by Covid-19 as it wiped out more than
development recent
goals are:
event has been a treaty to ban nuclear 4 years of progress on poverty eradication and health services. ¼ of the
weapons.
No poverty population is living in conflict affected countries, and inflation has
Zero hunger affected most countries.
The UN works by negotiating agreements
Good through
health and wellbeing
persuasion to help form international
World summit on sustainable development and Agenda 21
Quality education
law. The 6 main principles are:
Gender equality Agenda 21 has helped inspire a movement of sustainability which is
Clean water 1. and
Disarmament
sanitation and international embraced by organisations and businesses. The WSSD has set a time-
Affordance and security
clean energy bound sanitation target and recognised rights of communities in
2. Economic
Work and economic growth and financial natural resource management. Agenda 21 has been criticised as its
Industry 3. Social, humanitarian and culturalseen as an attack on personal liberties, having a focus on population
Innovation4.and Special political and decolonisation
infrastructure control and an attack on the idea of ‘private property’.
Bretton Woods institutes (IMF, WTO, WB)
5. Administrative and budgetary
Reduced inequalities
Scales at which it and other organisations work on
Sustainable 6. cities
Legaland communities The IMF has stabilised exchange rates, enlarged global
Responsible consumption and production The UN workstrade andinternational
at an created facilities
scalefor
andfinancing for both
works with member
The UN has 6 principal organisations and
Climate action governments countries. WTO has enhanced
and non-governmental the value ofNGOs
organisations. quantity
haveof
secretariate:
Life below water tradelocal/national
expanded from and helped eradicate
settings totrade and non-trade
become international
Life on land General assembly barriers.
organisations. NGOsThe WB has provided
increasingly support for with
work in partnership health,
other stake
Peace, justice and strong
security institutions and
council holders likeeducation,
governments infrastructure, agriculture
and international and economic
organisations.
Partnerships for the goals.
economic and social council and institutional development by creating funds to help
trusteeship council countries in poverty.
international court of justice
Unfortunately, these institutes have quite a few
secretarial.
criticisms. Loans provided by the IMF has allowed
The General assembly is made up of 193 states member countries to pursue reckless domestic
and it’s the main policy making and economic policies. It creates long term dependency.
representative organ. The security council The WTO has been criticised for enabling multinational
works to maintain international security and companies to become dominant which reduces cultural
peace. It also works to solve any disputes diversity and affects local industries. It has been argued
between nations. The economic and social that it enables richer countries to get what they desire
council is responsible for promoting higher meanwhile poorer countries are left behind. The WB
standards of living, employment, education says that it aims to help poor people but in reality its
and identifies solutions to economic, social policies are that the rich get richer by using cheap
and health problems. The trusteeship council labour and paying little taxes while the poor get poorer
supervises governments of trust territories as as jobs and public services are cut to pay interest on
they transition to sovereign states. debt owned to the WB.
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