ISBN: 142220068X

Description: 88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Before the United Nations
• Purposes and principles: the UN charter
• The United Nations: policy-making bodies and their functions
• The UN's judicial organ: the Court of International Justice
• The UN's administrative and executive body: the Secretariat
• Financing the United Nations.

LCCN: 2006013609

Control Number: 164234

Series:

• The United Nations : global leadership
• United Nations--global leadership.

Subjects:

• United Nations -- History -- Juvenile literature.
• United Nations -- History.