About the United Nations

History of the United Nations

Completion of UN headquarters

The “Declaration of United Nations” was drafted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Roosevelt aide Harry Hopkins and it was signed in January 1942.

On 24th of October in 1945 The United Nations officially comes into existence.

For more history, click here: https://www.un.org/en/sections/history/history-united-nations/index.html

UN Structure

The United Nations (UN) has six main organs. Five of them — the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council and the Secretariat — are based at UN Headquarters in New York. The sixth, the International Court of Justice, is located at The Hague in the Netherlands