The United Nations has saved millions of lives and boosted health and education across the world. But it is bloated, undemocratic – and very expensive.
How much of a part the UN played in holding nuclear armageddon at bay divides historians. But there is little doubt that in the lifetime that has passed since it was set up in 1945 it helped save millions from other kinds of hell. From the deepest of poverty. From watching their children die of treatable diseases. From starvation and exposure as they fled wars made in the cauldron of ideological rivalries between Washington and Moscow but fought on battlefields in Africa and Asia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/what-has-the-un-achieved-united-nations
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