The United Nations Organisation (UNO) was founded on 24 October 1945, following the approval of its governing Charter, with the aim of ensuring peace and security throughout the world. Sixty-four years later, the General Assembly – the organisation's main organ of representation – is comprised of 192 Member States. To achieve its objectives, the United Nations possesses different structures: the Security Council, the Secretariat, the Council for the Administration of Justice, the International Court of Justice and the Economic and Social Council, which rapidly gave rise to a multitude of subsidiary organs. However, the UN came into being at a very specific moment in time, in a world that quickly became bipolar. Six decades later, the situation has changed. Today's world is globalised and increasingly multipolar. At the same time, the organisation has not managed to adapt to these changes, and its inefficiency has been accompanied by a loss of credibility among citizens. But despite its limitations, the UN is still the best forum for the representation of the world's peoples. In fact, behind the United Nations lie the States, which project their virtues and their defects onto the organisation. The necessary change will depend on the desire of these States to relinquish (or not) a part of their sovereignty and their power in favour of the system, so that it can adapt to the global challenges and crises of the present age, and the need for representative world governability that is effective and efficient.

ISSN: 1132-6107

60 pp.

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