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2. United Nations Secretariat - Wikipedia

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   The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), [1] [2] The secretariat is the UN's executive arm. The secretariat has an important role in setting the agenda for the deliberative and decision-making bodies of the UN (i.e., the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council), and the implementation of the decision of these bodies.

3. United Nations in popular culture - Wikipedia

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   Already by the late 1950s, the Cold War and the Red Scare had left their mark on the popular representation of the United Nations in film, severely curbing it. Hollywood actress Myrna Loy, who helped found the US chapter of the UNESCO national association in 1948 and was a key internationalist figure in Hollywood circles, had to publicly protest in 1955 due to the difficulty of obtaining a ...

4. History of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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   The encyclopedia of the United Nations and international relations (1990) online; Peters, Laurence. The United Nations: history and core ideas (Springer, 2016). Rubin, Jacob A. Pictorial history of the United Nations (1962) online; O'Sullivan, Christopher D. The United Nations: A Concise History (Krieger, 2005) online; Sayward, Amy L.

5. Peace Palace - Wikipedia

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   This meant the library was forced to move to an annex building, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration was moved to the front left of the building. In 1946, when the United Nations replaced the League of Nations, the International Court of Justice was established as the UN's principal judicial organ.

6. Food and Agriculture Organization - Wikipedia

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   The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [note 1] (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945. [1]

7. United Nations Police - Wikipedia

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   UN Police car in Dili, East Timor. Since the 1960s, the United Nations Member States have contributed police officers to United Nations Peacekeeping operations. [5] The policing tasks of these operations were originally limited to monitoring, observing and reporting, but by the early 1990s, advising, mentoring and training of these personnel were adopted into the activities of the peace ...