United Nations (UN)

Source:  IE Context: Today, October 24, 2025, marks the celebration of United Nations Day and the 80th anniversary of the UN’s establishment. The day commemorates the entry into force of the UN Charter in 1945, reaffirming global commitment to peace, human rights, and sustainable development About United Nations (UN): What it is? The United Nations …

UN lays down guidelines to protect children displaced by climate change

GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Social Justice/ Welfare policies   Context: United Nations-backed agencies have issued guidelines to provide the first-ever global policy framework to protect children displaced due to climate change. (Just go through the points and note down 2-3 points under ‘UN guidelines for children’- to be incorporated into your main answer writing) The Guiding …

UN Reforms:

GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International Institutions.   Context: The long-simmering debate over UN reform — and particularly over the role of the Security Council, which does not represent today’s world and which failed to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — has suddenly become acute. Recently Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a blistering call …

Insights into Editorial: The birth of the United Nations, and its growth in the last 75 years

  Context: The United Nations completed 75 years this year. In order to commemorate the historic moment, world leaders come together, at a one-day high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly. The meeting, themed as ‘’The Future We Want, the UN We Need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism’, is a landmark event, as for …