With each passing year, international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization become more essential to serving the vital requirements of states and state goals of security and well-being for their central interests, especially their people. Organizations at one level serve the needs of their members and at a higher level "harmonize the action of nations" in the pursuit of common goals in the finely crafted words of Article 1 of the . Charter and constitution. Beyond, organizations have been given authority by their members to function as independent legal actors in the pursuit of shared security and shared and progressive well-being as set.
