United Nations: Challenges grow but not the budget to meet them
Al Jazeera
The United Nations is faced with doing more with less as international leadership gets tested in the COVID-19 era.
New York City, the United States – The United Nations’ budget is not growing but the challenges it faces are.
As it kicks off its annual high-level General Assembly session in New York City on Tuesday, the 193-member organisation will try to unify an international community struck by a deadly coronavirus pandemic and a lopsided global economic recovery that is only worsening the divide between the world’s haves and have-nots.
The UN has seen its share of challenges in recent years: Security Council stalemate on Syria, an unprecedented refugee and migrant crisis, a global health crisis that has yet to be reined in – particularly in developing countries – and crippling funding cuts under the administration of former United States President Donald Trump.
