Book Description

After World War II, a new organization was created to carry out policies that the League of Nations failed to serve. The United Nations was established to answer the problems brought by the World War II. It does not only seek to help countries to stand up after the war, it also helps to prevent future confrontations. By taking the lead towards peace, the United Nations adopted several peacekeeping operations. It also helps a country cope up by providing loans and/or financial assistance to build their economy.One of the purpose and main principle of the United Nations is to cooperate in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedom. (Childers 1999) The United Nations needed funds to carry out and achieve its goal. Financing a big organization like the United Nations is a big and highly political issue. Even though UN is not being biased, some states which are in direct contact with UN can influence the decision and policy making of the organization.The funding system of UN is very problematic. One of the probable reasons for this is the lack of stable source of fund which will secure the finance system of the UN. Another reason is that some countries do not take responsibility to provide fund as their counterpart to the UN budget. The negligence of the member states to pay as their contributions contributed to the instability and shortage of budget of the UN.With the financial crisis in the system, there are several critics and recommendations that require for the reform of the UN system. Some proposed that to save the UN a global tax on the international financial transactions should be carried out. This requires every citizen in the world to share the burden of financing the UN. However, this is not the best option to take because the payments that the UN member states should pay are levied to the citizens of each country. This does not consider the fairness and equality in social and economic sense as one of the purpose of existence and the very nature of the UN itself.