7 times the UN has done something (not completed)
Last updated: Monday November 17th, 2025
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7- Foundation of the International Criminal Court
What did the UN do for the ICC? After the judgments of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the UN pressured the international community to establish a permanent penal court. It also created temporary tribunals in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, which played an important role in laying the foundation for this initiative.
Of course, they also helped directly with the formation of the ICC, working with logistics, diplomacy, and juris of the court. Also, the UN did the Rome Statute, the basis for all the projects. Nowadays, the UN and the ICC are independent of each other, yet have a cooperation agreement.
The unique thing that kinda worsens the ICC is that the countries are not obliged to be in the court. So the American, Chinese, and Russian war crimes won't be judged (they don't want to adhere, since they aren't willing to be judged). The unique exception to the rule is whether the crime was realized in a member's territory, which gives the court the authority to intervene. (As happened in Afghanistan or Iraq)
6- Achieving the independence of Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when independence was achieved after a civil war. After some months, Indonesia invaded and occupied the country for more than two decades (human rights were often violated back then).
Despite the harsh repression, the independentist movements fought back until a referendum was held in 1999, which was not until May 20, 2002.
The UN had an important role in East Timor independence; without them:
• The Indonesian militias would have sunk the repressed country into more violence, without INTERFET's (and Australian) help.
• There would have been no reason to trust the autodetermination referendum, since any authority would have validated it.
• The humanitarian help would have been hardened.
•nobody would have administered Timor-Leste from the referendum to the independence, or have lent its administrative organs to the country.
So, it's easy to say that, without the UNO, Timor-Leste would still be sunk into violence and repression.
5- Cyprus
After a coup in Cyprus held by Greece in 1974, aiming to unite the island with the mainland, Turkey responded by invading the northern part of Cyprus. The first invasion led to a tense situation, with thousands displaced and major violence emerging between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
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4- Preservation of humanity cultural heritage
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3- Erradication of smallpox
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2- Montreal Concordate
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Honorific Mentions
Fight against AIDS and HIV, and also the time when Congo was in Civil War...
1- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Why people say the United Nations is useless:
People usually think that the UN is useless when they watch the news, and there's a new war, genocide or right's breach. And I may say to that people: aren't the states more gullible than the UN?
If a country wants to invade whoever they want, now the fault is magically from the UN?
The UN may have sinned of having such ambitious goals, and not achieving so (and invading Korea); yet they've helped so many people with the past of the years, that saying they shouldn't exist and they're totally useless is idiotic.