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United Nations
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global international and intergovernmental organization
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established in 1945. It replaced the League of Nations and maintains its headquarters in New York City, United States. The organization operates in Russian, Arabic, Standard Chinese, and English. Its primary components include the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the United Nations Secretariat. The head of the organization holds the position of United Nations Secretary-General.
Founding members included the Soviet Union, the United States, the Republic of China, and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The organization has received the Nobel Peace Prize, Peabody Awards, and the Sakharov Prize. It maintains diplomatic relations with the European Union. The current Secretary-General is António Guterres, who succeeded Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The organization is recognized in the Nobel Peace collection and the Peabody Award collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, ROR, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Research
95,763 papers- United Nations address.Journal of health communication · 1997Ratzan SCDOI: 10.1080/108107397127707
- The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Aspirational or obtainable?Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia · 2023Truby HDOI: 10.1111/1747-0080.12798
- Geopsychiatry, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and geopolitical challenges for global mental health.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Smith A, Gonzalez Smith DT, Ogunwale A et al.DOI: 10.1177/00207640231219169
- United Nations Charter, Chapter VII, Article 43: Now or Never.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2019Burkle FMDOI: 10.1017/dmp.2018.43
- The United Nations Victim Approach Revisited: A Review of the Literature on Sexual Assault and Gender-Based Violence Hotlines.ReviewViolence against women · 2022Galleguillos S, Pugliese KDOI: 10.1177/10778012221086001
- United Nations address.Journal of health communication · 1998Ratzan SCDOI: 10.1080/108107398127300
- SETAC Focus on United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.Integrated environmental assessment and management · 2020Menzie CDOI: 10.1002/ieam.4231
- Nursing Education and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.The Journal of nursing education · 2024Barton AJDOI: 10.3928/01484834-20240617-01
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Founded
- 1945
- Location
- New York, United States
- Also known as
- ONU
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.452939.0 · ISNI 0000 0004 0441 2096
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Peace Prize2001
“for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Part of
- United Nations System
- Official name
- Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych
- Country
- United States
- Official language
- Chinese
- Founded by
- Dominican Republic
- Headquarters
- New York City
- Legal form
- intergovernmental organization
- Creator
- Allies of World War II
- Official website
- www.un.org
- Image
- Secretary Kerry Addresses Delegates Before Signing the COP21 Climate Change Agreement on Earth Day in New York (26514585581).jpg
- Political ideology
- internationalism
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- inception
- 1945-10-24
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:United Nations
- Commons category
- United Nations
- topic's main category
- Category:United Nations
- phone number
- +1-212-963-4475
- history of topic
- history of the United Nations
- Commons gallery
- United Nations – Nations Unies
- position held by head of the organization
- United Nations Secretary-General
- topic has template
- Template:United Nations
- short name
- BMT
- general secretary
- Trygve Lie
- diplomatic relation
- European Union
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- replaces
- League of Nations
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:United Nations officials
- P6413
- United Nations
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Politics
- native label
- האומות המאוחדות
- has works in the collection
- National Museum of World Cultures
- Unicode character
- 🇺🇳
- social media followers
- 16204666
- different from
- BMT
- partnership with
- Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization
- facet of
- liberal international order
- web feed URL
- www.un.org/press/fr/feed
- official observer status in organization
- Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia
- main regulatory text
- Charter of the United Nations
- official shop URL
- shop.un.org
- has goal
- donation
- P12749
- Pseudomonadales
- P8168
- Ismed Sofyan
- hashtag
- onu
- member count
- 51
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