abstract:The United Nations known today was founded in 1945 after World War II in San Francisco when 51 countries signed the UN Charter in San Francisco to effectively create an organization facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights and the achievement of world peace.
The IkeaFoundationwillsupplytheBetterShelter units to the UnitedNations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which will distribute themgloballyto displacedfamiliesandcommunitieslaterthis year.
This week, the UnitedNationsFoundation will join governments, the private sector and civil society organizations for a summit in Washington focused on ending preventable child deaths.
But that gift went toward a pledge he made in 1997 to establish the UnitedNationsFoundation and the Better World Fund, both targeted at strengthening the UN.