The United Nations Turns 80: a Miracle it has Lasted So Long By Vijay Prashad Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service -- All rights reserved.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/the-united-nations-turns-80-a-miracle-it-has-lasted-so-long/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Is_Western_Support_for_Israel_Beginning_to_Crumble_Afghanistans_Overlapping_Crises_Deepen_Following_ SANTIAGO, Chile, Sep 12 2025 (IPS) - At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide. There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service -- All rights reserved.