UN Rights Office in ‘Very Serious’ Financial Situation

While the Trump Administration has planned to drastically reduce the budget allocated to the organization, it is fighting not to sink.

UN rights office in ‘very serious’ financial situation

However, its chief insisted there is no “panic”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Honduras opened its first “Land Office” in the city of La Ceiba, in the Caribbean of the country, on Friday to strengthen its presence in a region marked by multiple human rights violations. “Today is not an ordinary day. La Ceiba, Atlantis, the northern coast of Honduras... this territory full of history, culture and dignity, has become the home of the first field of…

UN rights office in 'very serious' financial situation

The UN rights office based in Geneva says it is facing a dire financial situation amid deep US funding cuts, but its chief insisted there is no “panic”. News reports this week suggested that the funding chaos gripping the United Nations had left its human rights agency panicked over a dramatic budget shortfall. “I have seen and read all sorts of unfounded rumours: that we are all moving to Vienna, that 70 percent of staff will move to the field …

UN Rights Office Denies ‘Panic’ as Trump Cuts Bite

The United Nations human rights office in Geneva is scrambling to manage a deepening financial crisis after major U.S. funding cuts—but insists everything is under control.Staff were summoned to a town hall this week by rights chief Volker Turk, who dismissed “unfounded rumours” of panic, mass layoffs, or relocation from costly Geneva to cheaper hubs like Nairobi or Vienna. Still, he admitted the agency was facing “a very complex time.”Swiss dai…

The UN human rights office, which has been hit like all other agencies by US cuts to aid budgets, admitted today that it is in a “very serious” financial situation but assured that it is not in a “state of panic”. “I have seen and read all kinds of unfounded rumours: that we are all going to move from Vienna, that 70% of the staff will be relocated except for the management. None of this is true,” said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, …