FULL LIST: Trump Orders US Withdrawal From Over 60 Global Organisations
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Jan 08, 2026
US President Donald Trump has ordered the country's withdrawal from over 60 global organisations.
The presidential declaration was signed Wednesday following a review directed at the State Department earlier this year of all international intergovernmental organisations, conventions, and treaties that the US is a party to.
Trump directed all executive departments and agencies to take immediate steps to effect the country's withdrawal from the organisations as soon as possible.
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Of the 66 organisations, 31 are United Nations (UN) entities while 35 are non-UN affiliated.
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Notable among the organisations include the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which, according to the White House, operate contrary to America's national interests.
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Upon returning to office last January, Trump initiated the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement.
Weeks later, he signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and prohibiting any future funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Near East (UNRWA).
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UNFCCC addresses global climate efforts and coordinates international action on climate change through annual COP meetings and agreements like the Paris Accord.ÔÇï Trump has repeatedly labelled climate change a "scamÔÇØ.
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UNFPA promotes access to family planning, maternal healthcare, and efforts to end gender-based violence and harmful practices like child marriage.ÔÇï Historically, the US provided substantial funding to UNFPA for programmes in over 150 countries.
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In a separate press statement, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, said the Trump administration found these institutions to be "redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendasÔÇØ.
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"The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over,ÔÇØ Rubio said.
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EU Slams Trump On Withdrawal Order
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from a bedrock climate treaty was slammed Thursday by the EU, which vowed to keep tackling the crisis with other nations.
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The treaty adopted in 1992 is a global pact by nations to cooperate to drive down planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
European Union climate chief Wopke Hoekstra said the UNFCCC "underpins global climate actionÔÇØ and brings nations together in the collective fight against the crisis.
"The decision by the world's largest economy and second-largest emitter to retreat from it is regrettable and unfortunate,ÔÇØ Hoekstra said in a post on LinkedIn.
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"We will unequivocally continue to support international climate research, as the foundation of our understanding and work. We will also continue to work on international climate cooperation.ÔÇØ
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Trump, who has thrown the full weight of his domestic policy behind fossil fuels, has openly scorned the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, deriding climate science as a "hoax.ÔÇØ
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His administration sent no representative to the most recent UN climate summit in Brazil in November, which is held every year under the auspices of the UNFCCC.
Teresa Ribera, the EU's vice-president for the clean transition, said the Trump administration "doesn't careÔÇØ about the environment, health or the suffering of people.
Fight Looms
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The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 and approved later that year by the US Senate during George H.W. Bush's presidency.
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"The US withdrawal from the UN climate framework is a heavy blow to global climate action, fracturing hard-won consensus,ÔÇØ Li Shuo, a climate expert at the Asia Society Policy Institute, told AFP.
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The US Constitution allows presidents to enter treaties "provided two-thirds of Senators present concur,ÔÇØ but it is silent on the process for withdrawing from them - a legal ambiguity that could invite court challenges.
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Trump has already withdrawn from the landmark Paris climate accord since returning to office, just as he did during his first term from 2017-2021 in a move later reversed by his successor, Democratic president Joe Biden.
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Exiting the underlying treaty could introduce additional legal uncertainty around any future US effort to rejoin.
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Jean Su, a senior attorney for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, told AFP: "Pulling out of the UNFCCC is a whole order of magnitude different from pulling out of the Paris Agreement.ÔÇØ
"It's our contention that it's illegal for the President to unilaterally pull out of a treaty that required two-thirds of the Senate vote,ÔÇØ she continued. "We are looking at legal options to pursue that line of argument.ÔÇØ
Progressive Ideology
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, an outspoken critic of Trump who is widely seen as a presidential contender, said in a statement, "our brainless president is surrendering America's leadership on the world stage and weakening our ability to compete in the economy of the future - creating a leadership vacuum that China is already exploiting.ÔÇØ
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The memo also directs the United States to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body responsible for assessing climate science, alongside other climate-related organizations including the International Renewable Energy Agency, UN Oceans and UN Water.
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As in his first term, Trump has also withdrawn the United States from UNESCO - the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - which Washington had rejoined under Biden.
Trump has likewise pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and sharply reduced foreign aid.
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Other prominent bodies named in the memo include the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Women, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement the organizations were driven by "progressive ideologyÔÇØ and were actively seeking to "constrain American sovereignty.ÔÇØ
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"From DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) mandates to 'gender equity' campaigns to climate orthodoxy, many international organizations now serve a globalist project,ÔÇØ he said.
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See Full List
UN ORGANISATIONS
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) - Economic Commission for Africa
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
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International Law Commission
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International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
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International Trade Centre
Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
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Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict
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Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
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Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
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Peacebuilding Commission
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Peacebuilding Fund
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Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
UN Alliance of Civilizations
UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
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UN Conference on Trade and Development
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UN Democracy Fund
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UN Energy
UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
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UN Human Settlements Programme
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UN Institute for Training and Research
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UN Oceans
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UN Population Fund
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UN Register of Conventional Arms
UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
UN System Staff College
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UN Water
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UN University
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NON-UN ORGANISATIONS
24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact
Colombo Plan Council
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Commission for Environmental Cooperation
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Education Cannot Wait
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European Centre of Excellence for Countering
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Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
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Freedom Online Coalition
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Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
Global Counterterrorism Forum
Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
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Global Forum on Migration and Development
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Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
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Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
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International Cotton Advisory Committee
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International Development Law Organization
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International Energy Forum
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International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
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International Lead and Zinc Study Group
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International Renewable Energy Agency
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International Solar Alliance
International Tropical Timber Organization
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Pan American Institute of Geography and History
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Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation
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Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia
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Regional Cooperation Council
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Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
Science and Technology Center in Ukraine
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
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Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
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— Thompson Nsisongabasi