The United Nations was officially established by the United Nations Charter in 1945 and includes several key organs. Name and describe three key organs.

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Students should identify three key organs of the United Nations. They may write about the Security Council (which is comprised of five permanent members and ten nonpermanent members that rotate off every 2 years and is the sole policy-making power of the United Nations); the Secretariat (which runs the United Nation’s day-to-day operations and moves the United Nations forward as an institution of peace); the General Assembly (which is the representative body comprised of all states that have ratified the United Nations Convention and supervises United Nations activities, decides financial matters, and elects nonpermanent members of the Security Council and the Secretary-General); the Economic and Social Council (which prepares studies and reports on economic and social concerns); the International Court of Justice (the legal branch of the United Nations composed of fifteen judges that receives cases); or the Trusteeship Council (which was established to administer trust territories that existed when the United Nations was created to facilitate their transition to independence).

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