US cuts force UN rights office to shut some work, including for Iraq torture victims


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  • Tuesday, 11 Mar 2025

FILE PHOTO: Overview of the session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2020. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it has received termination notices from the U.S. government for five of its projects, forcing it to shut some programmes including helping torture victims in Iraq.

U.S. President Donald Trump is cutting billions of dollars in foreign aid programmes globally as part of a major spending overhaul by the world's biggest aid donor, with details of the cuts and their global impacts now emerging.

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