⁷ Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2025) Financing the UN Development System: Managing Unprecedented Times; United Nations (2025) Briefing to Member States on UN80.

⁸ United Nations (2025) UN80 Initiative Shifting Paradigms: United to Deliver; Michelle Langrand (2025) UN human rights branch ‘in survival mode’ as funding dries up, Geneva Solutions.

⁹ UN Security Council (2025) Resolution 2803 (2025); Craig Mokhiber (2025) The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza, Mondoweiss.

¹⁰ Global Policy Watch (2024) Global South perspectives on Security Council reform.

¹¹ Lin Taylor (2025) Tighter borders bar poor nations from summits - on poor nations, Context: Thomson Reuters Foundation; APWLD (2025) Financing for Development for Whom? FfD4 preaches development but reeks of privilege and repression.

¹² Patrick Wintour (2025) US visa refusal for Palestinian delegation prompts calls to move UN meeting to Geneva, The Guardian.

¹³ Allison Griner (2025) Trump yanks G20 invitation from South Africa over false genocide claims, Al Jazeera.

¹⁴ Amnesty International (2022) Egypt: Arrests over calls for protests during COP27 expose reality of human rights crisis; Ruth Michaelson (2023) Cop28 officials fail to clarify if protesters are safe to protest in Dubai, The Guardian; Jaxx Artz (2024) COP29: A Growing Crackdown on Civic Space Restricts Future Climate Negotiations, Global Citizen.

¹⁵ Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group (2025) Urgent Appeal to Reverse Harmful UNFCCC Communication Endangering Indigenous Peoples and Protest Rights.

¹⁶ WEDO (2025) Belém: Feminist power delivered — but the process failed to meet the moment.

¹⁷ Fiona Harvey & Jonathan Watts (2025) More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out, The Guardian.

¹⁸ Grace Arina (2025) Feminist Reflections on the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, MENAFem.

¹⁹ AFRODAD (2025) Calling for an Ambitious Outcome Document for FfD4 in fixing Africa’s debt crisis; FfD4 Civil Society Forum (2025) Declaration from the FfD4 Civil Society Forum.

²⁰ Maria Jose Romero and Jean Saldanha (2025) Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development exposes continued lack of commitment to address systemic issues, Bretton Woods Project; AFRODAD (2025) Calling for an Ambitious Outcome Document for FfD4 in fixing Africa’s debt crisis.

²¹ Ibid.

²² UN (2025) Sevilla Commitment; MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development and Ecological Justice (2025) Feminists Confront Financing Injustice at FFD4.

²³ Eurodad (2025) Our verdict on FfD4: job not yet done.

²⁴ Emilia Reyes (2025) System Change Before Planetary Collapse: A feminist’s perspective on ecological justice and macroeconomics, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

²⁵UN (2025) “UN Secretary-General appoints High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP.”

²⁶ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (2025) Unprecedented rise in global military expenditure as European and Middle East spending surges.

²⁷ SIPRI (2024). The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world, 2023.

²⁸ NATO (2025) Defence expenditures and NATO’s 5% commitment.

²⁹ Stuart Parkinson (2025) Military spending rises and greenhouse gas emissions: what does the research say?, Scientists for Global Responsibility.

³⁰ Sam Huckstep, Laura Granito, Sara Casadevall Bellés and Lee Crawfurd (2025) Charting the Fallout of Aid Cuts: Which Countries Will be Hit Hardest, as Multiple Donors Cut Budgets?, Center for Global Development.

³¹ OECD (2025) Cuts in official development assistance: OECD projections for 2025 and the near term.

³² Oxfam (2025) Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 countries a death sentence for millions of people.

³³ Charles Kenny (2025) The USAID Shutdown: Where Next?, Center for Global Development.

³⁴ Elissa Miolene (2025) Devex Newswire: USAID's 'final mission' has just ended. Now what?, Devex.

³⁵ Middle East Monitor (2025) UK defends aid cuts, vows to protect key projects in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.

³⁶ Philip Loft and Philip Brien (2025) UK to reduce aid to 0.3% of gross national income from 2027, House of Commons Library.

³⁷ OECD (2025) Cuts in official development assistance: OECD projections for 2025 and the near term.

³⁸ Sam Huckstep, Laura Granito, Sara Casadevall Bellés and Lee Crawfurd (2025) Charting the Fallout of Aid Cuts: Which Countries Will be Hit Hardest, as Multiple Donors Cut Budgets?, Center for Global Development.

³⁹ John Eligon (2025) How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation, The New York Times.

⁴⁰ONE Data (2025) Many debt distressed countries are highly exposed to US aid cuts.

⁴¹ Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti et al. (2025) Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis, The Lancet.

⁴² The Feminist Humanitarian Network (2025) Feminist Humanitarian Action: Still Holding the Line.

⁴³ UN Women (2025) At risk and underfunded: How funding cuts are threatening efforts to end violence against women and girls.

⁴⁴ Regional Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group for the Arab States and MENA (2025) Advocacy Note – Four Ways to Support Women’s Organizations in the Arab States Amid Widespread Funding Cuts.

⁴⁵ Amnesty International (2025) Amnesty International warns of devastating consequences as abrupt U.S. Foreign Aid cuts threaten human rights globally.

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