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CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
AND

STATUTE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

SAN FRANCISCO • 1945

CHARTER OFTHE UNITED NATIONS
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS
DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the
humanperson, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising
from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another asgood
neighbors, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that
armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social
advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS
TO ACCOMPLISH THESEAIMS.
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in
the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good
and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do
hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

CHAPTER I
PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
Article 1
The^Purposes of the UnitedNations are:
1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of
threats to the peace, and for the suppression of
acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace,
and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement ofinternational disputes or situations which might lead
to a breach of the peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations
based on respect for the principle of equal rights
and self-determination of peoples, and to take
other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
3. To achieve international cooperation in
solving international problems of an economic,
social, cultural, or humanitariancharacter, and in
promoting and encouraging respect for human
rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
4. To be a center for harmonizing the actions
of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
Article 2
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit
of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in
accordance with the followingPrinciples.
1. The Organization is based on the principle
of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of
them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfil in good faith the obligations
assumed by them in accordance with the present
Charter.
3. All Members shall settle their international

disputes by peaceful means in such a manner thatinternational peace and security, and justice, are
not endangered.
4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force
against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner
inconsistent with the Purposes of the United
Nations.
5. All Members shall give the United Nations
every assistance in any action it takes inaccordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain
from giving assistance to any state against which
the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
6. The Organization shall ensure that states
which are not Members of the United Nations act
in accordance with these Principles so far as may
be necessary for the maintenance of international
peace and security.
7. Nothing...