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United Nations

Categories: Peace

Founded after World War II, to replace the League of Nations. Its stated aims are: 'facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace'. There are currently 193 member states.

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United Nations

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Church House - UN

Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations unveiled thi...

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Human Rights tree

Tulip Tree Planted 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing by the Un...

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Korean War memorial

The phrase "distant obligation..." references a cabinet meeting on 25 June 19...

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United Nations 40th Anniversary

Presented to the City of Westminster by the United Nations Association, to ce...

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Other Subjects

Sir Joseph Rotblat

Sir Joseph Rotblat

Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Poland

1 memorial
Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daughter of Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864-1935) and Edith Mary Brittain (1868-1948). Her father was a paper manufacturer. The 1...

Person, Literature, Peace

2 memorials
Entente Cordiale

Entente Cordiale

Up until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain and France had been at war on and off for centuries. The Entente Cordiale ('cordial argreement' doesn't really do it justice) settled a numbe...

Event, Peace, Politics & Administration, France

2 memorials
60 years of peace between Britain and Germany

60 years of peace between Britain and Germany

"... sixty years of peace between the peoples of Britain and Germany" in 2005, i.e. since the end of WW2. Another memorial commemorates "50 years of peace".

Event, Peace, Germany

1 memorial