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29 September 2025 | 12:00 CAT
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United Nations\u2019 Viability Questioned Amid Global Crises; Calls for New Multilateralism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eighty years after its founding, the United Nations is facing a crisis of credibility so deep that some observers now ask whether the organisation should continue to exist.<\/p>\n

The UN, founded in the aftermath of World War II to preserve peace, has since become ineffective, especially in crises like war in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan.<\/p>\n

Qaantiah Hunter highlighted the system\u2019s over-reliance on old power structures and the lack of meaningful reform as evidence that the UN may no longer serve its original purpose.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Debrief Report<\/a><\/em>, journalist Qaanitah Hunter argued that the UN has become an \u201cexpensive talk shop\u201d incapable of fulfilling the mission it set for itself after World War II.<\/p>\n

Hunter noted that this year\u2019s General Assembly was dominated less by substantive debate than by spectacle, including former U.S. president Donald Trump complaining about a stuck elevator and technical glitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond that sort of drama, there\u2019s something fundamental we have to look at,\u201d she said. \u201cThe developed countries who pioneered the formation of the United Nations \u2026 have essentially tapped out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pointed to the United States\u2019 long record of disregarding international law while clinging to its veto power on the Security Council, a body she described as \u201cdeeply flawed.\u201d African and other developing nations, she added, have repeatedly protested the absence of permanent African representation on the Council\u2014an omission she called \u201cdeeply absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter drew on the UN\u2019s own Mandate Implementation Review Report to highlight the organisation\u2019s internal stagnation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN by itself admits that it has passed something like 40 000 resolutions, most of which are repetitions, most of which go nowhere,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Each year, the body produces thousands of reports\u2014\u201cmore than two-thirds of those reports barely get more than 2 000 downloads\u201d\u2014and convenes tens of thousands of meetings without measurable impact.<\/p>\n

Financial instability further undermines the institution, with major contributors such as the United States threatening to cut funding. Meanwhile, conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo continue unabated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it can\u2019t do it in the DRC, if it can\u2019t do it in Ukraine, why exist?\u201d Hunter asked.<\/p>\n

Yet she stressed that multilateral cooperation itself is not obsolete. She pointed to the 33-nation \u201cHague Group,\u201d which is pursuing accountability for alleged war crimes in Gaza, and to emerging blocs such as BRICS as evidence that \u201cthere\u2019s still power in global cooperation.\u201d The challenge, she said, is that the UN framework was \u201cforced on the developing world\u201d and designed for the post-1945 order\u2014a context that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

Hunter called for a bold rethink.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not\u2026 create a new system with countries who still buy into the vision of a global order for peace and shared humanity?\u201d<\/p>\n

Until then, she argued, the UN remains a theatre of diplomacy unable to enforce international law, leaving vulnerable populations\u2014from al-Fasher in Sudan to Gaza\u2014without meaningful protection.<\/p>\n

Listen <\/strong>to the Debrief Report<\/a> on Sabaahul Muslim with Moulana Sulaimaan Ravat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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