UN Question

[sosantney123]

I am writing a paper for my World Politics class and I am currently studying each part of the united nation. I was writing that the UN needs to be less involved in each countries affairds. Can anyone help me with this. How do you think the United Nations can be made into a better and more responsive international organization?

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

The UN's purpose is to be extremely involved in countries' affairs, except for major 'first world' countries, like the US.

An important example was during the civil rights movement in the late 50s and 60s. You would never see UN officials in the streets of Washington professing that the American government is evil, and should treat all with the same equal rights as stated in their constitution.

Why? Because the US funds them, and the UN doesn't have the balls to go into the US and tell them that they're violating universal human rights declarations, amidst other international crimes (the War in Vietnam as an example).

There is only one way the UN can be extremely effective - the use of force in some way to ensure the international rights are being followed even by the superpowers. If this doesn't happen, the UN will just be a debating room for many state leaders to get together and argue, without anything being solved...more importantly, with laws being passed, and nobody following them.

Why follow a rule of law with no chance of reprecussion? It's illogical for a country to follow suit, and the only reason countries DO, is because they have to protect their international image.