UN Faces Severe Resource Crisis as It Celebrates 80th Anniversary

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Some U.N. agencies are increasingly pointing fingers at one another as they battle over a shrinking pool of funding, said a diplomat from a top donor country who spoke on condition of anonymity to comment freely about the funding crisis faced by some U.N. agencies.

As the U.N. marks its 80th anniversary this month, its humanitarian agencies are facing one of the greatest crises in their history: The biggest funder — the United States — under the Trump administration, and other Western donors have slashed international aid spending. Some want to use the money to build up national defence.

Some U.N. agencies are increasingly pointing fingers at one another as they battle over a shrinking pool of funding, said a diplomat from a top donor country who spoke on condition of anonymity to comment freely about the funding crisis faced by some U.N. agencies.

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Such pressures diminish the pivotal role of the U.N. and its partners in efforts to save millions of lives by providing tents, food, and water to people fleeing unrest in places like Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela, or helping stamp out smallpox decades ago.