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The third regular session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, was held from 21 September to 12 December 1948 in Paris, France and from 5 April to 18 May 1949 in New York City, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The permanent Headquarters of the United Nations did not yet exist, so sessions of the General Assembly were convened in various ...
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] ... In 1948, the General Assembly adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ...
The Third Committee of the General Assembly, which convened from 30 September to 7 December 1948 during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly, held 81 meetings concerning the draft Declaration, including debating and resolving 168 proposals for amendments by United Nations member states.
In 1948 the UN created the United Nations Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). Up to the late 1980s, peacekeeping missions were operated by six officials in the United Nations Office of Special Political Affairs, which was headed first by Under-Secretary-General ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted between early 1947 and late 1948 by a committee formed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.Further discussion and amendments were made by the Commission on Human Rights, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations.
During the 1948 Palestine war, around 700,000 [fn 1] Palestinian Arabs or 85% of the total population fled or were expelled from the territory Israel conquered. [6] The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
As of 17 December 2024, there are 193 member states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. [1]The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations Security Council resolutions that recommended their admission and the United Nations General ...