Sign feminist joint statement on UN’s financial collapse

The United Nations is facing a severe financial crisis that threatens its ability to function within months. After more than a year of warnings from the Secretary-General, continued underfunding and delayed payments by powerful Member States are now putting core UN operations at risk at a moment of overlapping global crises.

In response, feminist civil society organisations and allied groups working with and around the UN have come together to issue a joint feminist statement calling for urgent action to prevent institutional collapse, defend multilateral cooperation, and ensure that UN reform is not driven by financial coercion.

The statement is intended to complement other feminist statements and initiatives responding to the current crisis. Together, these interventions form part of a broader collective effort to defend multilateralism, democratic global governance, and the UN’s ability to act on gender equality, human rights, peace, and climate justice.

Call to sign on

We invite organisations to sign on to the joint statement and add their voices to this collective call.

By signing, organisations are:

• supporting a functioning, rules-based multilateral system
• pushing back against the normalisation of political underfunding
• defending space for feminist, human rights, and climate justice work
• contributing to collective pressure on Member States and philanthropic actors to act now

🕓 Deadline to sign on

Friday, 13 February 2026 at 10:00 CET

✍️ Sign the statement here

We also encourage signatories to share the statement within their networks and raise it with relevant decision-makers. Visibility and coordination are critical at this moment.

Funding disclaimer

We initiated and coordinated the drafting of this joint statement as an active member of the Women’s Major Group, on behalf of the WMG Advocacy Working Group. This work is supported through the Women Power 2030 programme, funded by the European Union. The contents of this statement and article are the sole responsibility of WECF and the WMG Advocacy Working Group and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.