“The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain

international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international
cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. [...] The UN was established after
World War II with the aim of preventing future wars...” (Wikipédia 2020). Talking about the UN is talk
about an organization that strives hard for the good of humanity. Nowadays, his goals include not
only maintaining peace and avoiding wars, but they also dedicates to social, humanitarian,
educational missions when fighthing against poverty, disease, degradation of human beings and
environmental disasters.

One important point that the UN discuss is poverty. Recent research shows that “736 million
people lived below the international poverty line of US$ 1.90 a day in 2015.” (United Nations 2020).
These people that lives miserabably doesn’t have access to food, clean water, health care, sanitation,
education and decente house that are basic points to have a minimally worthy life.

Another big challenge that humanity is facing is the climate change and global warming. hese
problems causes a lot of enviromental disasters like, extreme storms, loss of sea ice, heat-wave
intensification, rainfall patterns and rising sea levels. "While everyone around the world feels the
effects of climate change, the most vulnerable are people living in the world’s poorest countries —
like Haiti and Timor-Leste — and the world’s 2.5 billion smallholder farmers, herders and fisheries
who depend on the climate and natural resources for food and income." (Mercy Corps, 2019)

Many studies say that the more affected by the climate change are the poverty's, and this
happens becausethey don't have financial resourses enough to adapt to the consequences that this
cause. Between this impacts are, food getting higher because of the change in rain pattern that also
“...affect the transmission of deseases [...] climate change may swell the population at risk of malaria
in Africa by 90 million by 2030, and the global population at risk of dengue by 2 billion by the 2080s.”
(World Health Organization 2008)

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