UN charter

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1. The Charter The charter are the foundational rules of the UN. It was signed in June 1945 at San Francisco. It went in effect in October 1945
2. The UN charter is a treaty Wikipedia: A treaty is an express agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an (international) agreement, protocol, covenant, convention or exchange of letters, among other terms. Treaties can be loosely compared to contracts: both are means of willing parties assuming obligations among themselves, and a party to either that fails to live up to their obligations can be held liable under international law.
3. Countries agree on a set of rules. Then they have to ratify them, wich means they make them elgally binding in their own law. Everybody ratified the charter, except vatican city. They have the non- member status. But they can watch anyway.
4. The charter is very legally binding. If it's not written in the charter, you can nag a little about it. If it's written in the charter, there's no room for buts.
5. Here's brazil signing the charter.
6. Important! Look up the charter now! Read it by yourself, attentively, from top to bottom. The next level will teach you where in the charter specific things are said, not what is said.
7. So you'll be asked to know that article 1 gives the four purposes of the UN, but it won't tell you wich those four purposes are. It's not that i don't consider the actual content unimportant but it doesn't translate well into the memrise system.
8. Here are the purposes. Just for further reference. • To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; • To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; • To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and • To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.