March 2025
UN-backed forum in Lusaka seeks to boost resilience of world's Least Developed Countries — 31 March 2025 (LINK)
UN warns of 'severe' human rights abuses in Haiti as illegal weapons proliferate: between 270,000 and 500,000 firearms circulating illegally: "another crisis point". (LINK) — ground.news: 12 media reports — 28 March 2025 (LINK)
Putin suggests putting Ukraine under UN-sponsored administration — 28 March 2025 (LINK)
Geneva Environment Network: "International Geneva tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, of nature, land and biodiversity loss and of pollution and waste" — 28 March 2025 (LINK)
US pauses financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say: U.S. could be subject to punitive measures. — 27 March 2025 (LINK)
Fox News: DOGE USAID budget cuts hit UN in 'worst liquidity crisis since its establishment' — 22 March 2025 (LINK)
— President of the U.N. Field Staff Union Milan Victor Dawoh wrote in an email that the USAID funding cut resulted in "approximately $30 million" having been "removed from the extra-budgetary (XB) resources, resulting in a significant reduction in staffing". Dawoh said that UNDSS will lose 100 employees and that its presence will be eliminated in 35 to 45 countries, while noting that "regional hubs" will be established "in the remaining 120 countries where UNDSS will maintain a presence".
Le Temps/Geneva Solutions: US questionnaire for Geneva-based organizations reveal a troubling misunderstanding of how the multilateral system works — 21 March 2025 (LINK)
The Hill opinion: A fight for transparency and accountability is coming to the UN over LatAm/Carib Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan — 20 March 2025 (LINK)
International Organization for Migration (IOM) forced to restructure amid 30% budget cuts — 18 March 2025 (LINK)
UNOHCR admits played role in Bangladesh regime change in August 2024 — 9 March 2025 (LINK)
— Human rights chief Volker Turk has now admitted to "warning the Bangladesh Army that it would be banned from the UN peacekeeping missions if it got involved in violence during the July-August 2024 students' protests." UN peacekeeping is hugely valued by Bangladesh Army personnel , officers and soldiers alike, for financial reasons and the professional prestige it brings to the force. Loss of that would have clearly turned the rank and file against the country's military leadership — a risk the army Chief Gen Waker-u-Zaman was clearly unwilling to take.
— So when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called out the army to tackle the mass protests by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement or Students, little did she know that the military would not use force against the agitation because of the UN threat. The army chief instead forced the Prime Minister to quit, promising her safe passage if she left.
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