Iran's election as vice-chair of U.N. Charter Committee sparks outrage from Israel, who calls it a "moral absurdity" amid ...

David J. Scheffer and Mark S. Ellis provide an introduction to the UN Charter and make the case that it is the most important secular document in the world.

Although the United Nations was created in 1945 with the goal of ending war and solving other global problems, in many cases ...

On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, ...

If only the Board of Peace, dubbed “The Legion of Doom” by comedian Jimmy Kimmel and led by a chairman who seems bored with peace, remains standing, we may learn the truth of the old song, “You’re ...

In April of 1945 a number of grand historical projects were simultaneously underway. In Europe, more than ten million battle-hardened soldiers were converging upon Germany, from the east and from the ...