the UN is working to build a brighter future by confronting the planet’s most complex challenges – but it can’t do it alone.
The World Health Organization (WHo)
The World Health organization (WHO) analyzes 100,000 health threats every month that have the potential to turn into outbreaks and in 2023 alone, the UN bought $812 million in medicines and other health products from the United States.
America's partnership with WHO keeps us safe, healthy, and prosperous by stopping diseases and tackling health emergencies worldwide.
Paris Agreement
After the hottest year on record, wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles, and communities from Florida to North Carolina are still recovering from devastating hurricanes. Climate change is fueling more extreme weather—intensifying hurricanes, increasing rainfall, and making wildfires more destructive.
The Paris Agreement – for the first time – brought all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects. If the U.S. fails to act, the human and economic toll will only worsen.
The Freeze on Foreign Assistance
On Jan. 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) pausing U.S. foreign development assistance for 90 days to foreign countries, NGOs, international organizations and contractors.
The EO was followed by a global cable sent by the State Department on Jan. 25 that put an immediate pause on current and new foreign aid spending and programs.
Exemptions in the original order included:
- military aid to Israel and Egypt
- additional waivers covered humanitarian assistance that “applies to core lifesaving medicine"
- medical services, food, shelter and subsistence assistance, as well as supplies
- reasonable administrative costs as necessary to deliver such assistance.
However, its lack of details only raised more questions and ensured a multitude of programs in the field are still stalled.
Fully Fund the United Nations (UN)
The UN serves as a global 911 for the world’s most vulnerable, providing critical support such as food, shelter, clean water, medical care, and education to those trapped in deadly conflicts or reeling from natural disasters.
In 2023, 20% of the world’s children lived in or fled conflict zones, over 250 million people faced acute hunger, and one in 73 people were displaced—a figure that has doubled in the past decade.
Yet, through the generosity of key donors like the U.S., the UN and its humanitarian partners delivered life-saving assistance to 128 million people last year.
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U.S. foreign assistance saves lives and stopping it will cause untold suffering.
In Myanmar, where malaria cases increased tenfold over four years, the delivery of malaria tests and drugs have stopped. Globally, the UN International Organization for Migration is ending its assistance through its fund of last resort for human trafficking victims worldwide. Reducing human trafficking is something the U.S. has long supported - in bipartisan fashion - why would we want to limit that essential assistance?
Although circumstances are quickly changing, check out our sister campaign's, the Better World Campaign (BWC), blog post on recent developments as of Feb. 5.