UN warns of "imminent financial collapse" as unpaid dues hit USD 1.57B. Guterres urges reforms to prevent liquidity crisis and ensure operations continue. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/is-the-un-on-brink-of-financial-collapse-guterres-issues-warning-l9mq6cde?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UNFinancialCrisis #AntonioGuterres #UNBudget
Africa: A Cash Crisis Forces UN to Re-Figure Its Budget and Freeze Staff Hiring: [IPS] United Nations -- Faced with an impending cash crisis primarily due to non-payment of dues by the US and over 100 other member states- along with threats of a US withdrawal from the world body- there were widespread rumors the United Nations was re-costing and reducing its approved budget for 2025 while… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJSJNz #UNBudget #CashCrisis #StaffHiringFreeze #InternationalRelations #GlobalFunding

As the #UnitedNations mourns >100 killed #UNRWA staff in #Gaza today, the 'irony' is that, in official #UNbudget documents, those local area staff aren't even in the official #UNRWA organizational chart.

They're just mentioned in a footnote.

Source (draft 2024 UN budget):
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N23/113/02/PDF/N2311302.pdf?OpenElement

Three days in New York coming to an end, nerding around #UNbudget and UN administration at #NYU on the first days and today a quick visit to the Kenyan mission to the #UN to talk #NaturalLanguageProcessing.

@politicalscience

Just 48 hours before doom, the #UNbudget for 2023 has been agreed upon in the #FifthCommittee of the UN General Assembly.

Source: https://twitter.com/GermanyUN/status/1608561196340502529

I was already drafting in my head the blog post: β€œWhat happens when the United Nations do not have a new budget by the end of the year?β€œ Looks like there's no need for this.

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β€œβ€œWhite smoke” rises over the East River! πŸ’°The #FifthCommittee has agreed on #UNbudget resolution for 2023, 2 days before financial shut-down. Intense negotiations paid off: outcome ensures essential funding of mandates & the #humanrights, #peace, #development pillars.”

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