{"id":8437,"date":"2023-04-11T03:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:31:12","slug":"what-is-the-un-democracy-fund-undef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-un-democracy-fund-undef\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>UN Democracy Fund:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was created by the former <strong>UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2005<\/strong> as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is used to empower civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India <\/strong>is a founding member of UNDEF.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> It subsists entirely on <strong>voluntary contributions<\/strong> from Governments<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advisory Board:<\/strong> It is constituted by the Secretary-General and includes\n<ul>\n<li>UN Member States who have made the <strong>largest cumulative financial contributions <\/strong>to the Fund over the previous <strong>three years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>International civil society organizations<\/li>\n<li>Individuals serving in a personal capacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Q1) What is the United Nations?<\/h3>\n<p>The United Nations (UN) is an international organization founded after World War 2 in 1945 with the aim of promoting peace, security, and cooperation among member countries. It is composed of 193 member states, and its headquarters is located in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/express-exclusive\/in-new-delhi-george-soros-is-old-dangerous-and-on-a-watchlist-at-un-he-isnt-a-problem-8549460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In New Delhi, George Soros is old, dangerous and on a watchlist \u2014 at UN, he isn\u2019t a problem<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Democracy Fund was created by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}