Delegates from 50 states signed the UN Charter, creating an institution that declared sovereign equality and self-determination as principles. Yet most colonized peoples were not represented as sovereign states. The United Nations would become both a forum for international power politics and a platform through which anticolonial states later challenged empire.
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What did the UN Charter formally affirm while colonial rule continued?
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The Charter articulated principles that anticolonial movements later invoked, although colonial rule remained extensive.
Most colonized peoples were represented as sovereign states when the UN Charter was signed.
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The UN’s founding states did not represent most of the world’s colonized population as sovereign nations.