United Nations Funding Crisis and Human Rights

Click to expand Image The United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City, January 15, 2026. © 2026 Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa via AP Photo (New York) – The United Nations General Assembly amended a longstanding rule on June 30, 2026, to ease the world body’s deepening liquidity crisis, but severe funding problems remain, Human Rights Watch said. A new Human Rights Watch questions-and-answers document describes the effects of the UN’s liquidity crisis on its global human rights a