Scoop: The cuts result from Trump abolishing Biden-era efforts to save lives through legal U.S. immigration options.
BRUSSELS (AN) – The U.N. refugee agency has frozen $300 million of its suspended U.S. funding, ending cooperation in a U.S.-led program that had helped give legal options for Latin American refugees and migrants.
The decision impacts 600 jobs and reflects a need "to mitigate liquidity risks should U.S. payments remain delayed," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in an email to his global staff on Wednesday.
From migrants to refugees, millions of lives and the organizations that help them are at risk from U.S. aid cuts.
Scoop: The budget freeze is part of almost $700 million the U.N. refugee agency already received from the United States.
Other U.N. agencies that have been cited as potential replacements for UNRWA all agree it is irreplaceable.
Scoop: UNHCR's directors scrambled to tighten its budget because of the Trump administration's 90-day aid stoppage.
WHO members finally reach consensus on a draft pandemic agreement after 13 formal rounds of meetings since Dec. 2021.
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An A.U.-E.U. workshop focused on how to use AI to enable the 'economic integration' and success of more techology startups.
Talks will reconvene next week to finish a proposed global accord for the World Health Assembly to take up in May.
