𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 UN

The United Nations (UN) is structured around six principal organs, each with distinct roles and responsibilities:

1. General Assembly: The main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. All 193 Member States are represented in the General Assembly, each with one vote.
2. Security Council: Has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It has 15 members, five of whom are permanent (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and have veto power.
3. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC): The central platform for discussion and innovative thinking on sustainable development. It coordinates the economic, social, and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, their functional commissions, and five regional commissions.
4. Trusteeship Council: Established to supervise the administration of Trust Territories as they transitioned to self-government or independence. It suspended operation in 1994 when its last remaining trust territory, Palau, achieved independence.
5. International Court of Justice (ICJ): The principal judicial organ of the UN. It settles legal disputes between states and gives advisory opinions to the UN and its specialized agencies.
6. Secretariat: Comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands of international UN staff members who carry out the day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General Assembly and the other principal organs.