Major Failures Of The UN.

The United Nations has always failed to prevent war and full peacekeeping duties throughout its history. The UN was formed as an international umbrella organisation with several objectives to execute disputes between states. It was formed in 1945 after the failure of the League of Nations to prevent mutual disputes, but it is seen to fail in most of the resolution-based ceasefires. First and foremost, its failure can be seen in 1948, when Israel occupied the Palestinian state. At least 15,000 Palestinians were killed and some 750,000 out of a total population of 1.9 million were forced to take refuge far from their homeland between 1947 and 1949. However, more than 7,000 Palestinians and 1,100 Israeli died in the conflict between 2000 and 2014.

Similarly, the Kashmir dispute is the second failure of the UN which is in front of us. The ongoing gross human rights violation in Kashmir is a crisis. At least 68,000 people have been killed by...

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