Archive for April 4th, 2024

04/04/2024

UN in Geneva to Partially Shut Down –for Second Time– Due to Cash Flow Crisis

Human Wrongs Watch

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 2 2024 (IPS)* – Faced with a continued cash flow crisis, the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) will partially close down – for the second time since December last year— as it scales back its operations, including building closures, official travel restrictions, and budgetary cuts on spending.
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United Nations, Geneva

The UN is studying plans to close the Palais des Nations beginning 22 April. Only conferences would run, but some of the offices would shut.

In the earlier cutbacks, some of the Geneva offices remained closed or partially closed from 20 December last year to 12 January 2024.

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04/04/2024

‘The World Is Bigger than 5’

Human Wrongs Watch

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, PhD, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius

Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Apr 3 2024 (IPS)* – The title of this piece is not mine.

It’s from the President of Turkiye calling for a reform of the United Nations Security Council.

It has since become a motto in the UN reform campaign encapsulating the shared resentment at a global system that gives the five Permanent members – The P5 of the UN Security Council – the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia – unfair and often destructive veto powers that undermines the very ideals for which the UN was established.

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