United Nations Day

History of U. N. Day

October 24, 2009 is the 64th birthday of the United Nations. Delegates from 50 of the world's countries, large and small, strong and weak, and in different stages of political and social development, worked together to develop the U. N. Charter. They envisioned an organization which would preserve peace, advance justice and be a permanent structure for international cooperation.



Most of those 50 countries had ratified the Charter by October 24, 1945. In a ceremony on that date, the new organization offically came into being. Two years later the U. N. General Assembly designated each October 24 as United Nations Day. The General Assembly asked that this observance be “devoted to making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations, and to gaining their support for the work of the United Nations.”

Although not all of the hopes and dreams of the organization's founders have been fully realized, the U. N. has done much to bring together the peoples of the world to work for the elimination of disease, for access to education for children and an improved rate of literacy for adults, for human rights, and for a more just society.

In celebration of the United Nations Day, the University of Baguio Laboratory Elementary School provided the pupils various activities so as to promote the importance of the Organization and to be able for the pupils to be aware of what really United Nations does to the country and the entire nation as a whole.

The theme for the 2009 United Nations Day is "Unity for Peace and prosperity". Though the exact date of United Nations Day is set October 24, the UBLES will celebrate it starting October 26-28, 2009. Everyone is invited at the UBLES Quadrangle to watch and witness the various activities prepared by the pupils.