I.I.M.U.N. Blog
The world was left quite disrupted after struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries scrambled to safeguard their population and livelihood from the virus but there’s a bigger enemy that is still looming over our heads. Climate change poses a threat to the very existence of our planet and its people as we know it. A […]
Every year leaders from 193 countries gather for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. However, since the pandemic has begun, the format of conducting this meeting changed. 2020 saw a digital method of conducting, whereas 2021 explored the hybrid format wherein members joined either physically or virtually. Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives, being the Current […]
It all started when the United Nations was formed in 1945. The United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China were the victorious allies who came together to form the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The problem here doesn’t lay in the power that’s provided to these nations […]
We have reached a fork in the road and more critically, if member states won’t make a decision or prefer to keep the status quo, then history will make the decision for all of us. – Kofi Annan. The primary purpose of the establishment of the United Nations was to save the world from another […]
Model United Nations, a name that itself emerges from the United Nations, aims to find solutions to the real-life problems that are fundamentally resolved by the organisation named, United Nations. United Nations, founded in the year 1945, is an international organization that has the autonomy to take action on issues confronting humanity in the 21st […]
-Aditi Goel Lebanon is not Yemen, and Saudi Arabia has no borders with the country. It all began when Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly resigned on Nov 4, saying in a televised speech from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life from assassination and accused Iran and its proxy Hizbollah of […]
– Mayuko Yamamoto The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has conducted 15 nuclear tests since February 2017 until now, launching 22 perilous missiles. The autocratic unstable Supreme Leader of DPRK, Kim Jong Un demands to develop the technology and is now capable of bringing the most devastating catastrophe to the whole world just by […]
-Jeevesh Garg 70 years of Independence after 200 years of oppression has been full of negativity, hatred and in a constant state of conflict from both countries. A country which was economically and culturally rich was first exploited for false riches and then polluted. Polluted with the ideology that would displace 15 million people, kill […]
–Abhishek Dhawan When I sit to hear stories from my parents and grandparents it makes me realize how generation after generation, we, as a race, have advanced in terms of so many things especially in the field of computer science & technology. It was not so long ago that having a telephone landline at […]
By Jitendra Nath Misra Short of a political tsunami, a failure of State or a devastating natural calamity, change in the international system tends to be incremental. Dalveer Bhandari’s victory over Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is exactly the sort of gradual change which occurs when established and rising powers jostle. […]