United Nations (UN) The UN was founded in 1945 and is an international organisation which works to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and achieve international co-operation in solving international problems. Today, 193 countries are members of the UN. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or UDHR. The Preamble and 30 Articles of the Declaration proclaimed - for the first time in history - the universal, inalienable and indivisible human rights. The Declaration says that “everyone has the right to a nationality”. 49