Do or Die for the United Nations

PRETORIA – More than 140 world leaders traveled to New York this month to mark the United Nations’ unhappy 80th birthday. The world’s premier multilateral organization was created after World War II “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” But as UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently conceded, the organization is marking its “anniversary in a world scarred by brutal and widespread conflicts, deep inequalities and injustice, flagrant violations of human rights, and looming existential threats.”