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Charter for UN created
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. -
Chiefly announces the end of WW2
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/vevp/Fellow citizens, the war is over. The Japanese Government has accepted the terms of surrender imposed by the Allied Nations and hostilities will now cease. The reply by the Japanese Government to the note sent by Britain, the United States, the USSR and China, has been received and accepted by the Allied Nations. At this moment let us offer thank to god. - Ben Chifley -
UN born (offically)
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942, as a formal act of opposition to Germany, Italy, and Japan, the Axis Powers. -
Australia joins UN
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942, as a formal act of opposition to Germany, Italy, and Japan, the Axis Powers. -
UNESCO came into force
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights along with fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter. -
UNICEF (Convention on the Rights of the Child)
A human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention generally defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless an earlier age of majority is recognized by a country's law. Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law. Compliance is monitored by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child which is composed of members from countries around the world. -
Evatt President of the General assembly
Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, President of the third regular session of the General Assembly, has had a distinguished career in national and international affairs. Dr. Evatt played a prominent part at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. Since then he has served on the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, on the Security Council, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Commission for Conventional Armaments. Dr. Evatt has headed every Australian delegation to the Assembly from the beginning. -
UNDHR
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws. -
Korean War
On July–August 1945. the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea, without consulting the Koreans. Conventional war was the result of this. Between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China. -
CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. -
Role In East Timor
Between 1975 and 1999, there were an estimated 102,800 conflict-related deaths (approximately 18,600 killings and 84,200 'excess' deaths from hunger and illness), the majority of which occurred during the Indonesian occupation.
