{"event_id":919,"external_id":"miniflux:922","fetched_at":"2026-07-20 17:37:33","id":225,"payload":{"author":"Human Rights Watch","changed_at":"2026-07-20T16:58:25.496079Z","comments_url":"","content":"Click to expand Image\n          \n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n\n        \n                      \n      \n        \n              The United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City, January 15, 2026.\n                    \u00a9 2026 Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa via AP Photo \n          \n    \n\n\n  \n<p>\u00a0</p><p>(New York) \u2013 The\u00a0United Nations General Assembly amended a longstanding rule on June 30, 2026, to ease the world body\u2019s deepening liquidity crisis, but severe funding problems remain, Human Rights Watch said.\u00a0</p><p>A new Human Rights Watch questions-and-answers\u00a0document describes the effects of the UN\u2019s liquidity crisis on its global human rights activities\u00a0,\u00a0and makes recommendations to UN member countries to ensure the UN has the resources it needs to protect and promote human rights and save lives.\u00a0</p><p>\u201cThe US, China, and other governments that haven\u2019t paid or are late in paying their dues have forced the UN to cut back on critical human rights and humanitarian operations worldwide,\u201d said\u00a0Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cUN member states should explore new avenues to hold delinquent countries accountable for defaulting on their UN financial obligations.\u201d</p><p>While the US and China are responsible for nearly half the funds that member countries are obligated to contribute to the UN, dozens of other countries also pay late or not at all. \u00a0</p><p>\u00a0</p>","created_at":"2026-07-20T16:58:25.496079Z","enclosures":[],"feed":{"allow_self_signed_certificates":false,"apprise_service_urls":"","block_filter_entry_rules":"","blocklist_rules":"","category":{"hide_globally":false,"id":1,"title":"All","user_id":1},"checked_at":"2026-07-20T16:58:24.742212Z","cookie":"","crawler":false,"description":"","disable_http2":false,"disabled":false,"etag_header":"","feed_url":"https://www.hrw.org/rss/news?topic=9685","fetch_via_proxy":false,"hide_globally":false,"icon":{"external_icon_id":"2af79ca747d3012a648bd7b96af36341d1241b3a","feed_id":12,"icon_id":11},"id":12,"ignore_entry_updates":false,"ignore_http_cache":false,"keep_filter_entry_rules":"","keeplist_rules":"","last_modified_header":"","next_check_at":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","no_media_player":false,"ntfy_enabled":false,"ntfy_priority":0,"ntfy_topic":"","parsing_error_count":0,"parsing_error_message":"","password":"","proxy_url":"","pushover_enabled":false,"pushover_priority":0,"rewrite_rules":"","scraper_rules":"","site_url":"https://www.hrw.org/","title":"Human Rights Watch News","urlrewrite_rules":"","user_agent":"","user_id":1,"username":"","webhook_url":""},"feed_id":12,"hash":"01039408d9e6dbeeaea8e00ab297cd11dcb1a503fef070a18fcb93891a4d77e1","id":922,"published_at":"2026-07-20T13:27:04Z","reading_time":1,"share_code":"","starred":false,"status":"unread","tags":[],"title":"United Nations Funding Crisis and Human Rights","url":"https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/20/united-nations-funding-crisis-and-human-rights","user_id":1},"source_type":"miniflux"}