‘Too little cash, too much politics, leaves UNESCO fighting for life.’ Discuss the statement in the light of US’ withdrawal and its accusation of the cultural body as being ‘anti-Israel bias’.

Issue with multilateral institution

Multilateralism is a concept that arose post World war -II. The idea was to create a global platform for countries to interact.

Issues → these institution suffers from issues like:-

→ lack of consensus among member nation → situation of dead lock → lack of funding support → lack of enforcement mechanism as these institute are only advisory in nature.

Challenge of Funding:- UNESCO (1) The funding in these institution is mostly a challenge because of rift between the developed and developing nation. (2) This causes resource constraint. (3) This also hampers the effective functioning of the organisation. (4) UNESCO can only highlight the challenges & issues with respect to culture & education but cannot act on it because of lack of funding.