Founded after World War II, to replace the League of Nations. Its stated aims are: 'facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace'. There are currently 193 member states.
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United Nations
Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations unveiled thi...
Tulip Tree Planted 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing by the Un...
The phrase "distant obligation..." references a cabinet meeting on 25 June 19...
Presented to the City of Westminster by the United Nations Association, to ce...
Catherine Elizabeth Marshall was a suffragist and campaigner against conscription during WW1. She moved her interests from women's votes to peace and worked in Geneva supporting the League of Natio...
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Â Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. Â An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
Brian William Haw was a protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years from June 2001 in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. B...
Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...
Campaigning journalist and spiritualist. Born Northumberland. Committed to the peace movement, women's rights, civil liberties. As part of his campaign against juvenile prostitution he 'bought' 12 ...
Person, Gender Issues, Journalism / Publishing, Paranormal, Peace, Tragedy
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