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UN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025 for human rights monitoring
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Posted on January 30, 2025
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on January 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026
The UN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025 to address global human rights challenges, amid concerns over funding cuts.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support the monitoring and investigation of human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan.
The U.N. human rights office has been grappling with chronic funding shortages that some fear might be exacerbated by cuts from top donor the United States under new President Donald Trump.
"In 2025, we expect no let-up in major challenges to human rights," said High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk in a speech at the U.N. in Geneva. "I am very concerned that if we do not reach our funding targets in 2025, we will leave people...to struggle and possibly fail, without adequate support."
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Madeline Chambers)
The UN human rights chief is appealing for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025.
The UN human rights office has been grappling with chronic funding shortages, which may worsen due to potential cuts from major donor countries.
The current High Commissioner for Human Rights is Volker Turk, who expressed concerns about ongoing challenges to human rights in 2025.
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