Remarks by Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Laureate & UNODC Goodwill Ambassador, on the United Nations Digital Dialogue Commemorating the 6th Anniversary of the genocidal campaign against the Yazidi Minority – Six years after ISIL started its genocidal campaign: The state of the Yazidi community.
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The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.
At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; with the addition of South Sudan in 2011, membership is now 193, representing almost all of the world’s sovereign states.