United Nations at a Glance

Check out UN in 10 major points: 

• Provides food to 90 million people in 75 countries
• Vaccinates 58 per cent of the world’s children, saving 2.5 million lives a year
• Assists over 34 million refugees and people fleeing war, famine or persecution
• Combats climate change; works with 140 nations to prevent harmful mercury emissions UN
• Keeps peace with 120,000 peacekeepers in 16 operations on 4 continents
• Fights poverty, helping 370 million rural poor achieve better lives in the last 30 years
• Protects and promotes human rights on site and through some 80 treaties/declarations
• Mobilizes US$12.5 billion in humanitarian aid to help people affected by emergencies
• Uses diplomacy to prevent conflict; assists some 50 countries a year with elections
• Promotes maternal health, saving the lives of 30 million women a year