Title: 70 Ways the UN Makes A Difference | United Nations Seventieth Anniversary
Headings: 70 Ways the UN Makes A Difference
70 Ways the UN Makes A Difference
human rights
environment
international law
humanitarian affairs
health
PEACE AND SECURITY
1. Maintaining Peace and Security
2. Making Peace
3. Consolidating peace
4. Preventing Nuclear Proliferation
5. Clearing Landmines
6. Supporting Disarmament
7. Combating Terrorism
8. Preventing genocide
9. Combating Sexual Violence in Conflict
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10. Promoting Development
11. Alleviating Rural Poverty
12. Focusing on African Development
13. Promoting Women's Well-being
14. Laying the Groundwork for Business
15. Supporting Industry
16. Fighting Hunger
17. Improving Global Trade
18. Promoting Economic Reform
19. Supporting Civil Aviation
20. Improving Shipping
21. Generating Worldwide Commitment in Support of Children
22. Turning Slums into Decent Human Settlements
23. Providing Local Access to a Global Network
24. Improving Global Telecommunications
25. Promoting responsible tourism
26. Mobilizing volunteers for development and peace
27. Acting as a Global Think Tank
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
28. Improving Literacy and Education
29. Preserving Historic, Cultural, Architectural and Natural Sites
30. Facilitating Academic and Cultural Exchanges
31. Addressing global problems
32. Taking the lead on global issues
Human Rights
33. Promoting Human Rights
34. Fostering Democracy
35. Promoting Self-determination and Independence
36. Ending Apartheid in South Africa
37. Promoting Women's Rights
38. Combating violence against women
39. Promoting Decent Work
40. Promoting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression
41. Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
42. Improving the Plight of Indigenous People
Environment
43. Seeking solutions to climate change
44. Helping Countries to Cope with Climate Change
45. Protecting the Environment
46. Protecting the Ozone Layer
47. Providing Safe Drinking Water
48. Tackling Fish Stock Depletion
49. Banning Toxic Chemicals
International Law
50. Prosecuting War Criminals
51. Strengthening International Law
52. Helping to Resolve Major International Disputes
53. Promoting Stability and Order in the World's Oceans
54. Combating International Crime
55. Containing the World Drug Problem
56. Encouraging Creativity and Innovation
Humanitarian Affairs
57. Assisting refugees
58 Aiding Palestinian Refugees
59. Helping Disaster Victims
60. Reducing the Effects of Natural Disasters
61. Providing Food to the Neediest
Health
62. Promoting Reproductive and Maternal Health
63. Responding to HIV/AIDS
64. Wiping Out Polio
65. Eradicating Smallpox
66. Fighting Tropical Diseases
67. Halting the Spread of Epidemics
68. Pressing for Universal Immunization
69. Reducing Child Mortality
70. Protecting Consumers' Health

Content: Combating Terrorism
Governments coordinate their counter-terrorism efforts through the United Nations. In 2006, they adopted at the UN the first-ever global strategy to counter terrorism. UN agencies and programmes have helped countries to put in practice the global strategy, providing legal assistance and promoting international cooperation against terrorism. The UN has also put in place a legal framework to combat terrorism. Fourteen global agreements have been negotiated under UN auspices, including treaties against hostage-taking, aircraft hijacking, terrorist bombings, terrorism financing and nuclear terrorism. 8. Preventing genocide
The United Nations brought about the first-ever treaty to combat genocide—acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The 1948 Genocide Convention has been ratified by 146 States, which commit to prevent and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime. The UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as UN-supported courts in Cambodia, have put would-be genocide perpetrators on notice that such crimes would no longer be tolerated. The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme seeks to remind the world of the lessons to be learnt from the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.