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The United Nations Part 2

The document discusses the history and work of the United Nations. It details how the UN was founded in 1945 and works with organizations like WHO and UNICEF to promote health programs and vaccinate children globally. The UN aims to eradicate polio and other diseases from the world.

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The United Nations Part 2

The document discusses the history and work of the United Nations. It details how the UN was founded in 1945 and works with organizations like WHO and UNICEF to promote health programs and vaccinate children globally. The UN aims to eradicate polio and other diseases from the world.

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HISTORY Birth of the United Nations

3 Answer the questions.


1 When was The League of Nations created?
2 Why did The League of Nations end in 1946?
3 What did 26 nations agree to do when they
signed the Declaration by United Nations
in 1942?
4 Who represented the US, the UK, and
the Soviet Union at the San Francisco
Conference in 1945?
5 How many refugees has the UN helped
Saving
since 1950?
6 In which country has the UN helped farm children
4
workers, many of whom are women?

Match the underlined words or phrases from


from
the text with their meaning.
1 a period of fighting or war between two
disease
countries
As one of its fundamental aims, the UN works with other global
2 equality between men and women organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and
UNICEF to promote health programmes around the world. Women
3 helping to reduce suffering and improve and children around the world die every day from diseases which
people’s lives can be prevented. The UN and its partners vaccinate 57% of the
world’s children and save 2.5 million lives every year.
4 a written statement describing the rights that Polio, a disease which causes paralysis, can be prevented with a
a group of people should have
cheap vaccine that is available in Europe and the western world to
all children. And yet, in the 1980s, about 1,000 children around the
5 a system of government where individuals
vote for their political representatives world were paralyzed by polio every day.
Today, five million children and adults have been saved from
6 development that does not harm the paralysis caused by polio, because of programmes organized by
environment the UN and its partners. In the past, polio affected people in 125
countries around the world. Today, polio is present in only three
5 Read the text Saving children from disease. countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. Perhaps one day
What disease is the UN hoping to remove from it will be removed from the Earth in the same way that other
the Earth? diseases have been removed.

6 Read the text again. Are these sentences


true (✓) or false (✗)? Correct the false What do you think?
sentences.
• What do you think is the most important aspect of the UN’s work:
1 The UN is involved in international health promoting peace, humanitarian assistance, or gender equality?
programmes. Give your reasons.
2 The UN vaccinates 2.5% of the world’s
children. PROJECT
3 Polio is a disease which kills animals. Use the Internet to find an example of where the UN has helped
4 About 1,000 children were paralyzed by resolve a problematic situation somewhere in the world. Choose a
polio in the 1980s every day. topic between peace keeping, humanitarian assistance, and health
programmes. Write a short presentation of 200–250 words. Think
5 The UN has helped save one million children
about these questions:
and adults from polio.
6 Polio remains in only three countries in the • What measures did the UN take to help the situation?
world. • What were the lasting positive effects?

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